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To Investigate the Prevalence of Children Asthma in China

NCT01319292 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 20000

Last updated 2014-08-04

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Summary

Asthma is the most common chronic respiratory disease in children and has much effect on their life and study, which leads to huge economic burden and pressure to the whole families. Some children will develop into adult patients so that asthma can be the life-long vigorous trouble. In recent years, the prevalence rate of children asthma is increasingly going up worldwide. The prevalence rate in last 12 months reported in USA, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand was between 12% to 30%.

Center for Asthma Prevention and Education of Capital Institute of Pediatrics investigated the national asthma prevalence in 900 thousands children in 27 provinces and cities, which average rate was 0.11% to 2.03% in 1990. In 2000, we investigated it again in 31 provinces(43 cities) and the average national children asthma prevalence rate was 1.97%(0.25% to 4.63%) which was much higher than that in 1990.

Conditions

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • YuZhi Chen, professor · Capital Institute of Pediatrics, China

Eligibility

Max Age
14 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-04-30
Primary Completion
2013-04-30
Completion
2014-04-30

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