title: [Prevalence of allergic rhinitis in Beijing--a community survey].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To estimate the prevalence of allergic rhinitis (AR) in a community center in Beijing.
  
  
  METHODS
  We randomly investigated a community with 13 900 inhabitents in Beijing by means of questionnaire survey.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A total of 2000 questionnaires was send out, and 1988 of them were collected, which included 952 males and 1036 females (age: 1 to 96 years old, 128 cases are younger than 14 years old. Among of them, 194 cases (9.76%) were diagnosed as having AR according to epidemiologic definition, including 14 children. The prevalence of AR was 9.68% in adults, with male 10.21% and female 9.18%, 10.94% in children. The prevalence in male are slightly higher than in female both with adults and children but without statistic significance.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The survey showed the incidence of AR in Beijing are 9.76% in population, adults 9.68%, children (younger than 12) 10.94%. AR patients are more likely to have other allergic diseases.
authors.forename: Huali
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.forename: Xueyan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jiandong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D002947:Cities / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006967:Hypersensitivity / Q000453:epidemiology; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015995:Prevalence; D065631:Rhinitis, Allergic / Q000453:epidemiology*; D017678:Sex Distribution; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires