Abstract: Bronchial Asthma is a life threatening disease and it becomes sever when the humans exposure to factors that induce or exacerbate their illness.
Objective: To identify risk factors of adult bronchial asthma in Almadinah Almunawarh.
Method: A case-control study was conducted using a specially designed questionnaires to collects data by interviewing 30 cases and 34 control in Almadinah during the period of January 17, 2014 to January 24 m 2014.
Result: The majority of cases were older than 25 years, being significantly older than controls ( p-value=0.018 ). Significantly more females in cases than controls ( p-value=0.047 ). Adenoids was also more in cases than controls (p= 0.045 ). Rhinitis affected cases more than control (p = 0.00034).
Eczema affected cases more than controls ( p = 0.00042 ). The pollution was significantly associated with asthma ( p = 0.00059 ).
Conclusion: According to this study, the risk factors of bronchial asthma are age, sex, occupation, smoking, adenoids, rhinitis, dust in environment, and animal around patients, Eczema, sport practice, pollution and allergic food.
Keywords: Adult Bronchial Asthma, Eczema, sport practice, pollution and allergic food.
Title: Risk Factors of Bronchial Asthma in Almadinah Almunawarh
Author: Molammed Balla, Abdullah S Alrowithi
International Journal of Healthcare Sciences
ISSN 2348-5728 (Online)
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