Prevalence of asthma among the adult general population of five Middle Eastern countries: results of the SNAPSHOT program
| Autor: | Adam Doble, Abdelkader El Hasnaoui, Aaicha Lahlou, Hesham Tarraf, Bassam Mahboub, Fayaz Aziz, Ömür Aydın, Dilşad Mungan, Mohammad Albader, Luqman Tariq |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Male Quality of life Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine medicine.medical_specialty Demographics Population Co-morbidity Comorbidity Logistic regression Middle East 03 medical and health sciences Sex Factors 0302 clinical medicine Surveys and Questionnaires Epidemiology Prevalence Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Bipolar disorder Noncommunicable Diseases SNAPSHOT education Asthma lcsh:RC705-779 education.field_of_study business.industry Respiratory disease Age Factors Disease Management lcsh:Diseases of the respiratory system Middle Aged medicine.disease Cross-Sectional Studies 030228 respiratory system Female business Needs Assessment Research Article Demography |
| Zdroj: | BMC Pulmonary Medicine BMC Pulmonary Medicine, Vol 18, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 1471-2466 |
| Popis: | Background Asthma is a common chronic respiratory disease leading to morbidity, mortality and impaired quality of life worldwide. Information on asthma prevalence in the Middle East is fragmented and relatively out-dated. The SNAPSHOT program was conducted to obtain updated information. Methods SNAPSHOT is a cross-sectional epidemiological program carried out in five Middle Eastern countries (Egypt, Turkey, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, the latter three grouped into a Gulf cluster) to collect data on asthma, allergic rhinitis, benign prostatic hyperplasia and bipolar disorder. The survey was carried out by telephone in a random sample of the adult general population with quotas defined according to country demographics. The analysis presented in this paper focuses on asthma. Subjects were screened for asthma based on criteria from the global Asthma Insights and Reality studies. Current prevalence (last 12 months) was estimated. Multivariate logistic regression analyses were used to investigate risk factors related to asthma and the association with allergic rhinitis and other co-morbidities. Quality of life was assessed using the three-level EQ-5D questionnaire. Results 2124 out of the 33,486 subjects enrolled in the SNAPSHOT program fulfilled the criteria for asthma. The adjusted prevalence of asthma ranged from 4.4% [95% CI: 4.0–4.8%] in Turkey, to 6.7% [95% CI: 6.2–7.2%] in Egypt and 7.6% [95% CI: 7.1–8.0%] in the Gulf cluster. Prevalence was higher (p |
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