How Prevalent Is Allergy Among United States School Children ?

Arbeiter, Herbert I.

doi:10.1177/000992286700600307

Cited by 47 publications

(9 citation statements)

References 3 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…The results of two American surveys are close to the Aberdeen prevalence rate of 4 8%. The study of asthma in the total community of Tecumseh, Michigan (Broder, Barlow, and Horton, 1962), showed a comparable prevalence in similar age groups; while Arbeiter (1967), in a study of allergy in schoolchildren in Munster, Indiana (an upper-middle income suburb of Chicago) found a prevalence of asthma of 4 * 9 %. From Melbourne, Australia, Williams and McNicol (1969) reported a rate of 3 *7%.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 95%

Educational and social characteristics of children with asthma

Mitchell¹,

Dawson²

1973

Archives of Disease in Childhood

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 95%

Educational and social characteristics of children with asthma

Mitchell¹,

Dawson²

1973

Archives of Disease in Childhood

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…Figures from studies in the United Kingdom, United States of America and Australia are similar, varying between 2 and 5%. Arbeiter (1967), Dawson et al (1969), Graham et al (1967), Nathanson & Rhyne (1970), Smith (1976), Williams & McNicol (1969).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Prevalence of asthma: a comparative study of urban and rural Xhosa children

Niekerk

Weinberg

Shore

et al. 1979

Clin Experimental Allergy

227

104

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Summary An epidemiological study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of asthma in young urban and rural black (Xhosa) children. One thousand three hundred and seventy five children were studied, 694 from a Cape Town african township and 671 from a rural area in Transkei. The exercise tolerance test which required free range running at maximum effort for 6 min was used to identify asthmatic subjects. A fall of 15% or more in the post‐exercise FEV1 and PEFR values was regarded as a positive result. Twenty‐three children were found to be asthmatic, twenty‐two from the city area, but only one from the country, giving a prevalence figure for asthma of 3.17% in the first group and 0.14% for the second. Possible reasons for these differences are discussed. The exercise tolerance test was found to be a useful tool for epidemiological studies of asthma.

show abstract

“…The total incidence of atopic disease in European and North American children is reported to be 12-24% (1,7,16). The incidence of childhood asthma is reported to have increased in the US and the UK in recent decades (15,17).…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

ATOPIC DISEASE IN SEVEN‐YEAR‐OLD CHILDREN Incidence in Relation to Family History

Kjellman

1977

Acta Paediatrica

208

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The incidence of atopic disease and its relation to the family history was studied by questionnaire in 1325 children, 7 years of age. A higher incidence of bronchial asthma (2.7%) was found than in a previous Swedish study. The total incidence of atopic disease in the children was 15.1% with a higher level when there was a double parental history of such disease (42.6%) as compared with a single such history (19.8%). When both parents had an identical type of atopic disease, i.e. respiratory or skin, the incidence of atopic disease was higher (72.2%) than when non-identical types occurred in the parents (20.8%). The findings support theories of a polygenic transmission of atopic disease as well as a genetic influence on symptom specificity in such disease and may be of value in genetic counselling.

show abstract

How Prevalent Is Allergy Among United States School Children ?

Cited by 47 publications

References 3 publications

Educational and social characteristics of children with asthma

Educational and social characteristics of children with asthma

Prevalence of asthma: a comparative study of urban and rural Xhosa children

ATOPIC DISEASE IN SEVEN‐YEAR‐OLD CHILDREN Incidence in Relation to Family History

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About