Bronchial Asthma in Indian children - The most neglected disease
Journal Title: Perspectives In Medical Research - Year 2016, Vol 4, Issue 2
Abstract
Bronchial Asthma is an important public health problem at the global level1 . There have been few studies among school age children both in urban and rural areas in India, but most of them are localized regional studies and depended on questionnaires, which has limitations, hence do not give true picture of asthma in the community. Bronchial asthma is not a disease confined only to respiratory system, but also has systemic effects. If not identified early, particularly in a child can lead to increased morbidity and mortality. The burden of asthma affects the patients, their families, and society in terms of lost work and school, lessened quality of life, increased emergency visits, hospitalizations and deaths2 . During childhood period, bronchial asthma is often under diagnosed and under treated, which may lead to severe psychosocial disturbances in the family1. The proportion of school children suffering from bronchial asthma has increased more than double in the last ten years. The increase in the prevalence of asthma in children will have serious implications in their adult life as 40% of children with trivial wheeze and 70-90 % with troublesome symptoms continue to have symptoms in mid adult life3
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C N Prasad
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