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Effect of asthma severity on symptom perception in childhood asthma
Provedor de dados: Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
Autores: Cabral,A.L.B.; Conceição,G.M.; Saldiva,P.H.N.; Martins,M.A.
Individual ability to perceive airway obstruction varies substantially. The factors influencing the perception of asthma are probably numerous and not well established in children. The present study was designed to examine the influence of asthma severity, use of preventive medication, age and gender on the association between respiratory symptoms (RS) and peak expiratory flow (PEF) rates in asthmatic children. We followed 92 asthmatic children, aged 6 to 16 years, for five months. Symptom scores were recorded daily and PEF was measured twice a day. The correlations among variables at the within-person level over time were analyzed for each child and for the pooled data by multivariate analysis. After pooling the data, there was a significant (P&lt;0.05)...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Asthma; Asthma severity; Pulmonary function tests; Symptom perception; Childhood asthma.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2002000300006