| Clinical and Environmental Studies of Bronchial Asthma in Children. |
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Sun Hee Kim, Hyun Soo Park, Keun Chan Sohn |
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Department of Pediatrics，National Medical Center, Seoul, Korea |
| 소아 기관지 천식의 임상 및 유발 요인에 대한 고찰 |
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김선희, 박현수, 손근찬 |
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국립의료원 소아과 |
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| Abstract |
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Bronchial asthma is a leading cause of childhood chronic illness and has limitted their
normal life. Bronchial asthma in children is mostly extrinsic origin and many environmental
factors, probably hereditary factors relate to their clinical course. We made clinical and environmental studies on bronchial asthma in children who were admitted to the MP dept, of N.M.C. from Jan. 1973 to Sep. 1983 and some results were obtained as follows.
1) The out-break ratio of bronchial asthma was 1.6% of hospitalized children, the children under 6 years of age was 68.7% and male to female ratio was 2.4 : 1. 2) The out-break of bronchial asthma was most common in September, followed by July, October and November and so peak incidence was noted in fall.
3) The platienfs residence are concenturated at the area of apartment houses in GangDong Gu and Gang-Su Gu and Guro new industrial region. 4) The parent’s socioeconomic status is upper middle level and weight and height distribution of patient is mostly over 50 percentile. 5) The presence of infantile eczema, bronchioiltis, or other allergic diseases and familyhistory of atopic diseases were more prevalent in male rather than female.
6) Eosinophilia was found in 64.1% and elevated IgE was also in 67.9% of bronchial asthma.
7) We could get variable positive results of skin test; house dusts, dermatofarinae, fungus and variable foods.
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| Key Words:
Bronchial asthma.
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