2014, Number 3
Risk factors of the severity of Bronchial Asthma in children. Bayamo, 2010
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: bronchial asthma is the chronic disease that produces a greater morbidity and alteration of the life quality of children during their childhood; it is not always diagnosed properly in the childish age.Objective: to determine the risk factors that influence in the severity of the Acute Crisis of Bronchial Asthma.
Method: it was performed a case control study, in children that belonged to the urban area of Bayamo municipality, who were admitted in the Paediatric Intensive Therapy Unit at ¨General Luís Ángel Milanés Tamayo¨ Hospital, during the year 2010. The universe was constituted by 118 patients that were hospitalized for Bronchial Asthma; the sample was made by hospitalized patients with this diagnostic, and they were divided into 13 cases: patients with severe asthma and 32 controls with a 1: 4 relation.
Results: the severe risk factors of the Acute Crisis of Bronchial Asthma were: passive exposure to the cigar smoke, malnutrition by defect, and the age was under 5 years, having more than 5 crises per year, finally the antecedents of admissions in the Intensive Therapy.
Conclusions: the association between the factors: previous admission in Therapy, passive smokers, malnutrition by defect and more than 5 crises last year; in this order of importance, it was determined the risk of admission by severe asthma.
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