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Title: | Asthma, rhinitis and eczema in Maltese 13-15 year-old schoolchildren - prevalence, severity and associated factors (ISAAC) |
Authors: | Montefort, Stephen Lenicker, Herbert Manfred Caruna, S. Agius Muscat, Hugo |
Keywords: | Asthma -- Malta -- Case studies Asthma in children Eczema in children Rhinitis |
Issue Date: | 1998 |
Publisher: | Wiley Online Library |
Citation: | Montefort, S., Lenicker, H. M., Caruna, S., & Agius Muscat, H. (1998). Asthma, rhinitis and eczema in Maltese 13-15 year-old schoolchildren - prevalence, severity and associated factors (ISAAC). Clinical and experimental allergy, 28(9), 1089-1099. |
Abstract: | 27.9% of the participants were wheezers ‘ever’ while 16% were current wheezers. Of the latter children 15.1% were experiencing nocturnal wheezing at least once a week and 22% had a wheezing episode severe enough to limit speech. Nasal problems were present in 52.7% of these teenagers and 47.4% of all respondents persisted with these symptoms up to the year of answering the questionnaire. Hayfever had been diagnosed in 32.3% of all the children. 12.8% of respondents had a recurring itchy rash suggestive of eczema for at least 6 months of their lives and 10% had it currently. This was slightly lower than the global mean, unlike the case of wheezing, which in Malta was more common than the world average, and rhinitis, for which we had the second highest cumulative prevalence rate in the world. Multiple variables such as gender, smoking, family history of atopy, pets, soft furnishings and living in busy roads affected the prevalence and severity of the allergic conditions studied. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/23279 |
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