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[The epidemiology of asthma in adults. An insight]
Claudio Alberto Salvador Parisi1, Sergio Zunino, Marcos Las Heras
1Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Sección de Alergia, Buenos Aires, Argentina. claudio.parisi@hospitalitaliano.org.ar.
Background:
Asthma is a chronic disease with a great impact on public health and on the patients' quality of life. In Latin America, there are scarce epidemiological studies.
Objective:
To describe the prevalence of asthma and the clinical-demographic characteristics in an adult population from a private health system in the City of Buenos Aires.
Methods:
A cross-sectional study of adults who were enrolled in the medical program of a private health system in Buenos Aires between January 1st, 2017, and January 1st, 2018. All the patients that were included in the study had been diagnosed with asthma.
Results:
The prevalence of asthma in the adult patients of a prepaid health system in the City of Buenos Aires was of 6 % (n = 66, IC 95 % = 5-7), and the prevalence of severe asthma among the same group was of 5 % (n = 3, IC 95 % = 1-13). Most patients had intermittent and mild asthma.
Conclusion:
This study provides new data about the epidemiology of asthma in the region.
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