title: Prevalence of asthma among German adults: analysis of the German National Telephone Survey.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence of asthma in German adults.
  
  
  METHODS
  This analysis used data of 8,318 German adults 18 years of age and older who had participated in the German National Telephone Survey, a nationally representative cross-sectional study.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The overall lifetime prevalence of asthma in German adults was 5.7%. It ranges between 4.3% in East and 6.0% in West Germany. Logistic regression analysis showed that asthma was associated with unemployment, younger age, and living in West Germany.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study provides further evidence that differences exist in the prevalence of asthma between East and West Germany.
authors.affiliation: University of Bremen, Drug Utilization Research Unit, Bremen, Germany. hoffmann@zes.uni-bremen.de
authors.forename: Falk
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hoffmann
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001249:Asthma / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D005843:Geography; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016017:Odds Ratio; D015995:Prevalence; D012737:Sex Factors; D012907:Smoking