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Risk factors associated with asthma exacerbations in school-age children

Risk factors associated with asthma exacerbations in school-age children Yavuz et al. Clinical and Translational Allergy 2015, 5(Suppl 2):P6 http://www.ctajournal.com/content/5/S2/P6 POSTER PRESENTATION Open Access Risk factors associated with asthma exacerbations in school-age children 1* 2 3 2 3 2 Tolga S Yavuz , Ozgur Kartal , Guven Kaya , Mustafa Gulec , Mehmet Saldir , Osman Sener From 2nd International Severe Asthma Forum (ISAF) Athens, Greece. 13-15 November 2014 Background year (Odds Ratio [Confidence Interval]) (22.47 [9.28- Acute asthma exacerbation is one of the most frequent 54.44]; p<0.001), lack of regular asthma controller ther- emergencies in childhood. Awareness of risk factors apy (3.51 [1.22-10.10]; p=0.02), lack of previous asthma related with asthma exacerbation will reduce the mor- diagnosis (3.34 [1.70-6.57]; p< 0.001) and being over- bidity and the mortality of the disease. The aim of this weight (2.25 [1.15-4.40]; p=0.018) were related with study is to investigate the factors associated with asthma asthma exacerbation in school-age children with asthma. exacerbations in school-age children. Conclusion Method Awareness of risk factors related with asthma exacerba- Children who attended to a tertiary outpatient pediatric tion may alert physicians who deal with school-age chil- allergy and asthma department and diagnosed with dren with asthma and may help prompt and rational asthma were enrolled in the study. A questionnaire interventions in order to prevent asthma exacerbations. including demographic features and parameters to determine socioeconomic status were applied. Asthma Authors’ details control status of patients was evaluated according to 1 GATA School of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Allergy, Ankara, Turkey. GINA criteria. Laboratory investigations including com- GATA School of Medicine, Department of Adult Allergy, Ankara, Turkey. GATA School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Ankara, Turkey. plete blood counts with differential, total IgE levels, skin prick tests and pulmonary function tests were also Published: 23 March 2015 performed. Results doi:10.1186/2045-7022-5-S2-P6 A total of 348 children (232 male (66.7%); with a med- Cite this article as: Yavuz et al.: Risk factors associated with asthma exacerbations in school-age children. Clinical and Translational Allergy ian age [interquartile range] of 8.0 [6.2-11.1] years were 2015 5(Suppl 2):P6. included. 45.9% of children had aeroallergen sensitiza- tion. Asthma was controlled in 138 children (39.7%), whereas partially controlled and uncontrolled in 45 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central (12.9%) and 98 (28.2%) patients, respectively. 67 patients and take full advantage of: (19.3%) were having an asthma exacerbation. The his- tory of ER admittance and asthma exacerbation in the • Convenient online submission last year was more frequent in children with asthma • Thorough peer review exacerbation (p <0.001 and p<0.001, respectively). More- • No space constraints or color figure charges over, children with asthma exacerbation were less fre- • Immediate publication on acceptance quently under regular asthma controller therapy • Inclusion in PubMed, CAS, Scopus and Google Scholar (p<0.001). Multivariate logistic regression analysis • Research which is freely available for redistribution revealed that history of asthma exacerbation in the last Submit your manuscript at GATA School of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Allergy, Ankara, Turkey www.biomedcentral.com/submit Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © 2015 Yavuz et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http:// creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Clinical and Translational Allergy Springer Journals

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Abstract

Yavuz et al. Clinical and Translational Allergy 2015, 5(Suppl 2):P6 http://www.ctajournal.com/content/5/S2/P6 POSTER PRESENTATION Open Access Risk factors associated with asthma exacerbations in school-age children 1* 2 3 2 3 2 Tolga S Yavuz , Ozgur Kartal , Guven Kaya , Mustafa Gulec , Mehmet Saldir , Osman Sener From 2nd International Severe Asthma Forum (ISAF) Athens, Greece. 13-15 November 2014 Background year (Odds Ratio [Confidence Interval]) (22.47 [9.28- Acute asthma exacerbation is one of the most frequent 54.44]; p<0.001), lack of regular asthma controller ther- emergencies in childhood. Awareness of risk factors apy (3.51 [1.22-10.10]; p=0.02), lack of previous asthma related with asthma exacerbation will reduce the mor- diagnosis (3.34 [1.70-6.57]; p< 0.001) and being over- bidity and the mortality of the disease. The aim of this weight (2.25 [1.15-4.40]; p=0.018) were related with study is to investigate the factors associated with asthma asthma exacerbation in school-age children with asthma. exacerbations in school-age children. Conclusion Method Awareness of risk factors related with asthma exacerba- Children who attended to a tertiary outpatient pediatric tion may alert physicians who deal with school-age chil- allergy and asthma department and diagnosed with dren with asthma and may help prompt and rational asthma were enrolled in the study. A questionnaire interventions in order to prevent asthma exacerbations. including demographic features and parameters to determine socioeconomic status were applied. Asthma Authors’ details control status of patients was evaluated according to 1 GATA School of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Allergy, Ankara, Turkey. GINA criteria. Laboratory investigations including com- GATA School of Medicine, Department of Adult Allergy, Ankara, Turkey. GATA School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Ankara, Turkey. plete blood counts with differential, total IgE levels, skin prick tests and pulmonary function tests were also Published: 23 March 2015 performed. Results doi:10.1186/2045-7022-5-S2-P6 A total of 348 children (232 male (66.7%); with a med- Cite this article as: Yavuz et al.: Risk factors associated with asthma exacerbations in school-age children. Clinical and Translational Allergy ian age [interquartile range] of 8.0 [6.2-11.1] years were 2015 5(Suppl 2):P6. included. 45.9% of children had aeroallergen sensitiza- tion. Asthma was controlled in 138 children (39.7%), whereas partially controlled and uncontrolled in 45 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central (12.9%) and 98 (28.2%) patients, respectively. 67 patients and take full advantage of: (19.3%) were having an asthma exacerbation. The his- tory of ER admittance and asthma exacerbation in the • Convenient online submission last year was more frequent in children with asthma • Thorough peer review exacerbation (p <0.001 and p<0.001, respectively). More- • No space constraints or color figure charges over, children with asthma exacerbation were less fre- • Immediate publication on acceptance quently under regular asthma controller therapy • Inclusion in PubMed, CAS, Scopus and Google Scholar (p<0.001). Multivariate logistic regression analysis • Research which is freely available for redistribution revealed that history of asthma exacerbation in the last Submit your manuscript at GATA School of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Allergy, Ankara, Turkey www.biomedcentral.com/submit Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © 2015 Yavuz et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http:// creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.

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