CORRELATIONS BETWEEN DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS, SPIROMETRY, EXHALED NITRIC OXIDE AND SEVERITY LEVEL IN CHILDREN WITH ASTHMA AND/OR RECURRENT WHEEZING
Abstract:
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the existence of correlations between demographic
factors (age, gender, origin environment), family history, forced expiratory volume per second (FEV),
concentration of exhaled nitric oxide (FENO) and asthma severity. There were included in the study 90
children diagnosed with asthma in different stages of severity or with recurrent wheezing. As findings,
the following were revealed: one cannot say that there is an association between the type of asthma and
gender (p = 0.423), origin environment (p = 0.678), existence of prior family medical history (p =
0.254), normalized or increased values of nitric oxide in exhaled air at 3 months after initiation of
background therapy (p = 0.078) or between the type of asthma and normalization or decrease of FEV
after 3 months of background treatment initiation (p = 0.276), but it can be said that there is an
association between asthma type and age (p = 0.001), thus in the age group ≤ 10 years, recurrent
wheezing is predominating (55.6% of cases) and in the age group > 14 years intermittent bronchial
asthma is prevalent (56.3% of cases).
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