THE PREVALENCE OF WHEEZING AT CHILDREN FROM FIRST AND EIGHTH FORM IN SIBIU
Abstract:
In Romania there are only few epidemiological studies on asthma, so that a study on
prevalence of asthma and wheezing in particular is, I think, welcome.This study was conducted on two
groups of school children in Sibiu - 945 children from 1st forms and and 715 from 8th forms.ISAAC
questionnaires were used, and there were analyzes the prevalence of wheezing, the number of seizures
per year, the association of secondary disorders such as sleep or speech disorders, than the presence of
asthma, as also the association with exercise and dry cough at night. The prevalence of previous asthma
diagnosis in the two groups analyzed by us was 3,17% in children of 1st form, respectively 5,31% in the
8th form children. In a study of asthma prevalence in children from Cluj-Napoca this prevalence was at
the 8th form children 3,3% in 1995 and increased to 5,5% in 2001, therefore, absolutely comparable
with our data.
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