[The prevalence of bronchial asthma, chronic bronchitis and COBP in representative samples of the adult population].
In order to organize the management of asthma bronchiale and chronic bronchitis, in our country, it is compulsory to know the prevalence of these diseases in the autochthonous population. The ECRHS questionnaire (by interview) and lung function tests were applied in three random population samples aged by 18 years and over. The samples were selected from the electoral rolls and coming from three different economic and geographic regions of our country. The questionnaire were administered by trained pneumologists and lung function testing by well trained technicians. The results were stored and processed on computer using the EPI INFO program. The prevalence of asthma bronchiale was: 4.09%, 6.60%, 1.70%. The prevalence of chronic bronchitis was: 12.28%, 10.11%, 7.98%. The prevalence of chronic obstructive bronchitis was: 1.79%, 2.50%, 1.89%. Generally, the prevalence of asthma bronchiale was found close to the values obtained in other studies, of identical conditions. It was particularly close to the results of Italian researchers who studied a population aged by 20 years and over from the northern Italy. The prevalence of chronic bronchitis was near by the value mentioned by Scandinavian epidemiologists. Analytic epidemiology would specify the causes of the variations we founded in the three studied samples.
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Serviciul de Fiziopatologie respiratorie şi Explorări Functionale Pulmonare, Institutul National de Pneumoftiziologie Marius Nasta.
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D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D001249:Asthma / Q000453:epidemiology*; D001991:Bronchitis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008173:Lung Diseases, Obstructive / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D012383:Romania / Q000453:epidemiology; D012424:Rural Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017678:Sex Distribution; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data