Abstract

PRIETO HERRERA, María Eulalia  and  QUEIPO CABALLERO, Ana Josefa. Caracterización del asma bronquial en un área de salud. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 2000, vol.16, n.4, pp.356-359. ISSN 0864-2125.

A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted to characterize bronchial asthma in 2 basic working groups of the Eastern Community Polyclinic, in the municipality of Camagüey, during 1996. 260 patients classified as asthmatic participated in the study. 99 patients were selected from 6 physician's offices as a sample.Variables such as severity degree, family and personal history of atopic disease, moment in which the crisis appears and environmental factors were collected in the survey. 54.5% of the asthmatic patients were mild, whereas 68.6% recognized having atopic diseases. There was a high percentage of environmental factors (95.9% of dust, 78.7% of pets, 74.7% of humidity). It was concluded that most of the patients had relatives with atopic diseases and that more than 50% of the patients had crises of bronchial asthma caused by the temperature changes. Home dust was the most important environmental factor found in the research

Keywords : ASTHMA; EPIDEMIOLOGIC SURVEILLANCE; DUST; EPIDEMIOLOGIC FACTOR; TEMPERATURE.

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