Abstract

MALDONADO DE LOS REYES, Bartolo; ALBA CARCASES, Yolanda; GUILLOT MONTE, Guillermo Eustiquio  and  NARANJO ARROYO, Migdalia. Characterization of pregnant women with bronchial asthma in "José Félix Ribas" district of the Venezuelan municipality of Sucre . MEDISAN [online]. 2012, vol.16, n.8, pp.1215-1221. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive, cross-sectional and prospective study was carried out in 120 pregnant women with bronchial asthma in "José Félix Ribas" district of the Venezuelan municipality of Sucre, from January to December 2010, to characterize them clinically and epidemiologically. For gathering information a data sheet and a questionnaire that was processed with version 6.0 of Epi Info program were used. Adolescents (56.6 %) prevailed in the case material, of them 55.8 % had active or passive contact with the cigarette smoke, and 68.3 % presented with grade I of bronchial asthma. Also, trigger factors prevailed (100.0 %), followed by causal factors (95.8 %), so that clinical and epidemiological characteristics of these pregnant women make a health problem of bronchial asthma in this population group.

Keywords : pregnant woman; adolescent; bronchial asthma; risk factor; Venezuela.

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