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| Title |
50 years of asthma: UK trends from 1955 to 2004
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Thorax, December 2006
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| DOI | 10.1136/thx.2006.066407 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
H Ross Anderson, Ramyani Gupta, David P Strachan, Elizabeth S Limb |
| Abstract |
Trends in asthma indicators from population surveys (prevalence) and routine statistics (primary care, prescriptions, hospital admissions and mortality) in the UK were reviewed from 1955 to 2004. The prevalence of asthma increased in children by 2 to 3-fold, but may have flattened or even fallen recently. Current trends in adult prevalence are flat. The prevalence of a life-time diagnosis of asthma increased in all age groups. The incidence of new asthma episodes presenting to general practitioners increased in all ages to a plateau in the mid 1990s and has declined since. During the 1990s, the annual prevalence of new cases of asthma and of treated asthma in general practice showed no major change. Hospital admissions increased from the early 1960s, more so in children, until the late 1980s and have fallen since. Asthma mortality showed two waves, a shorter and more intense one in the mid 1960s and a longer and less intense one in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The relative roles of diagnostic transfer, coding changes, medical care and epidemiological factors are discussed. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | 21% |
| United States | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 10 | 71% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 11 | 79% |
| Scientists | 2 | 14% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 7% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 181 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | 2% |
| Korea, Republic of | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 176 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 38 | 21% |
| Student > Bachelor | 28 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 23 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 16 | 9% |
| Other | 15 | 8% |
| Other | 30 | 17% |
| Unknown | 31 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 84 | 46% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 14 | 8% |
| Social Sciences | 8 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 6 | 3% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 6 | 3% |
| Other | 29 | 16% |
| Unknown | 34 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 56. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 July 2023.
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#1,691
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