Abstract

DE LA VEGA PAZITKOVA, Tatiana; PEREZ MARTINEZ, Víctor T.  and  BEZOS MARTINEZ, Lenia. Course of bronchial asthma in adolescents seen in "Ana Betancourt" University Polyclinic. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 2010, vol.26, n.1. ISSN 0864-2125.

Introduction: the bronchial asthma is a even defined entity establishing some interpretations of its epidemiology, diagnosis and consequently of its treatment. Objectives: to estimate the global prevalence of asthma in adolescents seen in family medical consulting rooms from "Ana Betancourt" University Polyclinic. Methods: a descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted including 81 adolescents of both sexes aged between 11 and 18 from family consulting rooms of Basic Group No. 2 of "Ana Betancourt" University Polyclinic of Playa municipality during January, 2006 and January, 2007. As work tool we used the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood recognized at world scale. Results: the total figure of asthmatic persons raised to 52 adolescents with a discreet increment of male sex and of slight cases of this disease for a global prevalence of 64.1 %. There was of sub-registry of 20.9%. Conclusions: in patients from both consulting rooms there was a high prevalence of bronchial asthma in adolescents with a great affection in males. Patients show mainly the slight ways of this disease. There was a significant registry of bronchial asthma in the adolescents seen in "Ana Betancourt" University Polyclinic.

Keywords : Asthma; prevalence; sub-registry; adolescents.

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