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Article Name :
Occurrence and Distribution of Acute Bronchial Asthma in People Attending Al-Leith General Hospital, Saudi Arabia
Author Name :
FAHAD ALFAHMI, MOHAMMED ALJABRI, ADEL AL MALIKI, SAUD ALMALIKI, MOHAMMED ELAWAD, FALEH ALYAZIDI
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Bridge Center
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Abstract :
A hospital-based descriptive study was conducted on occurrence and distribution of Acute Bronchial Asthma in people attending Al-Leith General Hospital, Saudi Arabia. The objectives were to know the number of acute bronchial asthma in Al-Lieth General Hospital; to distribute acute bronchial asthma disease by nationality, sex and age; and to identify the approach of management towards Asthma. The study covered all patients with asthma who were attend to the hospital in the year 1439 H. The relevant data were collected by reviewing the electronic records of the year 1439 H. The findings were 10308(96.8%) of bronchial asthma patients were Saudi, more than a half of (57.5%) asthmatic patients were males, children under 15 years old were more affected (25%) than other age groups and majority (97.7%) of cases were managed at emergency department and a few of them need admission. The study concluded that acute bronchial asthma is still public health problem among Al-Leith population.
Keywords :
bronchial, asthma, occurrence, distribution, Al-Leith
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