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dc.contributor.authorALFRAYH, A
dc.contributor.authorBENER, Abdulbari
dc.contributor.authorALJAWADI, TQ
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-05T13:00:21Z
dc.date.available2021-03-05T13:00:21Z
dc.date.issued1992
dc.identifier.citationALFRAYH A., BENER A., ALJAWADI T., "PREVALENCE OF ASTHMA AMONG SAUDI SCHOOLCHILDREN", SAUDI MEDICAL JOURNAL, cilt.13, ss.521-524, 1992
dc.identifier.issn0379-5284
dc.identifier.othervv_1032021
dc.identifier.otherav_afff531e-dc68-4cd8-b271-998c2a27e08c
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12627/117350
dc.description.abstractThe aim of this paper was to study the prevalence of asthma among Saudi schoolchildren aged 7-12 years. A cross-sectional study of 3300 schoolchildren living in three different regions of Saudi Arabia (average 9.32 years, 56% boys and 44% girls) was conducted between January 1986 and January 1990. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect details of age, sex, area of residence, occupation, education level of parents, asthma, hay fever, cough, wheezing, exposure to pets and animals, parental smoking, and parental history of asthma. The results showed that children with wheezes occur more commonly in Jeddah with 12.6%, Riyadh with 11.9% and Dammam with 6.6%. The frequency of hay fever is significantly more common in each area than wheeze, but once again is most common in Jeddah, with up to 24% of the children complaining of nasal symptoms compared with 17% in Riyadh and 12.1 % in Dammam. A very clear family history of asthma is reported countrywide in that 35.9% of wheezy children have a mother with asthma and 40.7% of these children have fathers with asthma. This contrasts with 8.6% of non-wheezy children with either parent with asthma. A similar pattern is seen with hay fever symptoms with 27.1% of wheezy children having a mother with hay fever symptoms and 22.8% of fathers, compared with 9% of non-wheezy children with either parent with hay fever symptoms.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.subjectTıp
dc.subjectSağlık Bilimleri
dc.subjectTemel Tıp Bilimleri
dc.subjectKlinik Tıp (MED)
dc.subjectKlinik Tıp
dc.subjectTIP, GENEL & İÇECEK
dc.titlePREVALENCE OF ASTHMA AMONG SAUDI SCHOOLCHILDREN
dc.typeMakale
dc.relation.journalSAUDI MEDICAL JOURNAL
dc.contributor.department, ,
dc.identifier.volume13
dc.identifier.issue6
dc.identifier.startpage521
dc.identifier.endpage524
dc.contributor.firstauthorID96513


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