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Original Article

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1990;33(5):623-631. Published online May 31, 1990.

A Study on the Growth Pattern, History of Respiratory Illness and Family History in Acute Bronchiolitis.

Dong Won Choi¹, Byung Ju Jung¹, Kyu Earn Kim¹, Ki Young Lee¹

¹Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Received: September 29, 1989;  Accepted: February 27, 1990.

Abstract

The authors evaluated the growth pattern, history of frequent respiratory illness and family history in 111 infants who were admitted to the Department of Pediatrics, Yonsei University Hospital with the diagnosis of acute bronchiolitis from Sept. 1986 to Jun. 1988. The results of the study were as follows: 1) The sex incidence of bronchiolitis was higher in males compared with the sex incidence of the total number of In-patients below 2 years of age during the same period as the study on bronchiolitis. 2) Bronchiolitis was more prevalent in 3 month to 7 month old infants of both sexes and a large percentage (88.3%) of the 111 cases occurred under 1 year of age. 3) In comparison with the growth pattern, 26.1% of the patients were above the 90th percentile weight curve, whereas 6.3% of the same patients were above the 90th percentile height curve. The weight percentile was greater than the height percentile in 78 cases (70.3%); equal in 23 cases (20.7%); and less in 10 cases (9.0%). 4) There wa no significant relationship between growth pattern and type of feeding in bronchiolitis. And there was little obesity in the physical characteristics of the family in bronchiolitis. 5) Of the patients, 33.3% had suffered from bronchiolitis previously and we considered bron- chiolitis as a disease which dose not frequently recur. 6) Statistically, there was a significant correlation between a previous history of bronchiolitis and a history of frequent respiratory illness. 7) There was no significant relationship of a previous history of a frequent respiratory illness between the fathers and patients but there was a significant relationship of a previous history of frequent respiratory illness between the mothers and patients. In summary, there seemed to be a high weight percentile of the growth pattern in bronchiolitis and a close relationship between a previous history of bronchiolitis and a history of frequent respiratory illness was observed.

Keywords :Bronchiolitis, Growth pattern, History of respiratory illness, Family history