| Title |
Respiratory viral infections in children with asthma: do they matter and can we prevent them?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Pediatrics, September 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2431-12-147 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Hamid Ahanchian, Carmen M Jones, Yueh-sheng Chen, Peter D Sly |
| Abstract |
Asthma is a major public health problem with a huge social and economic burden affecting 300 million people worldwide. Viral respiratory infections are the major cause of acute asthma exacerbations and may contribute to asthma inception in high risk young children with susceptible genetic background. Acute exacerbations are associated with decreased lung growth or accelerated loss of lung function and, as such, add substantially to both the cost and morbidity associated with asthma. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 3 | 75% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 50% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 50% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1% |
| Ethiopia | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 176 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 28 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 23 | 13% |
| Researcher | 19 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 8% |
| Other | 12 | 7% |
| Other | 42 | 23% |
| Unknown | 43 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 66 | 36% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 13 | 7% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 7 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 6 | 3% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 6 | 3% |
| Other | 34 | 19% |
| Unknown | 49 | 27% |
Attention Score in Context
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