Prevalence of asthma in elderly finns
| Autor: | Tala E, Sirkka-Liisa Kivelä, Hannu Puoluoki, Raimo Isoaho, E. Huhti |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Epidemiology Population Risk Factors immune system diseases Prevalence medicine Humans Age of Onset Occupations Child education Finland Aged Asthma Aged 80 and over education.field_of_study business.industry Smoking High mortality Dust Rural district Middle Aged medicine.disease respiratory tract diseases Cross-Sectional Studies Social Class Regression Analysis Female business Demography Social status |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 47:1109-1118 |
| ISSN: | 0895-4356 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0895-4356(94)90097-3 |
| Popis: | There is uncertainty about the prevalence of asthma even in countries in which extensive epidemiological surveys have been carried out and attention has been drawn to a probable increase in prevalence. A cross-sectional epidemiological survey of asthma in the population aged 64 years or over was carried out in the rural district of Lieto, Finland. All 1196 participants (488 men and 708 women, 93% of those eligible) were examined and individually assessed using a set of criteria for asthma. The prevalence of current asthma was 2.9% in the men and 3.8% in the women and it accounted for about 40% of the cumulative (life-time) prevalence of self-reported asthma. Current asthma was uncommon in men aged 75 years or over and no cases were found in men who smoked. Current asthma in women was associated with low social status, smoking and dusty working conditions in the past. The difference in prevalence between the men and women was greatest among the smokers, which may be due to a previous high mortality among elderly asthmatic men who had been smoking, or a lack of the typical characteristics of asthma in men with long histories of smoking. The prevalence of asthma was similar to that obtained earlier in Finland and elsewhere. |
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