Childhood asthma at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi
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Date
1990Author
Macharia, W M
Mirza, N M
Wafula, E M
Onyango, F E
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Between January 1986 and July 1988, 356 children with bronchial asthma below 14 years of age were evaluated at the Kenyatta National Hospital. 21.3% experienced initial asthmatic attacks before the age of six months and 55.1% before 2 years. Only 8% of the study patients were below the age of 2 years at recruitment. The male:female ratio was 1:1. Physical exercise led to precipitation or worsening of attacks in 43.4% while 71.6% of the patients experienced attacks in the evening or at night. 18.5% and 42.9% had personal history of a topic dermatitis and allergic rhinitis respectively. The study shows that a substantial number of patients experience initial asthmatic attacks before the age of 6 months contrary to what has been previously believed.
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http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/16809http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2083517
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East Afr Med J. 1990 Dec;67(12):837-41Publisher
Department of Paediatrics, University of Nairobi.
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- Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) [10377]