ReviewThorax2007
50 years of asthma: UK trends from 1955 to 2004.
Review in Thorax, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 81 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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81 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Predictors of repeated acute hospital attendance for asthma in children: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Pediatric pulmonology · 2018Pooled it
- Exhaled nitric oxide levels to guide treatment for children with asthma.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- Childhood asthma and physical activity: a systematic review with meta-analysis and Graphic Appraisal Tool for Epidemiology assessment.BMC pediatrics · 2016Pooled it
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- Vitamins C and E for asthma and exercise-induced bronchoconstriction.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2014Pooled it
- Telehealthcare for asthma: a Cochrane review.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2011Pooled it
- Telehealthcare for asthma.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2010Pooled it
- Developing asthma in childhood from exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke: insights from a meta-regression.Environmental health perspectives · 2007Pooled it
- The Impact of Intensive Versus Standard Anthelminthic Treatment on Allergy-related Outcomes, Helminth Infection Intensity, and Helminth-related Morbidity in Lake Victoria Fishing Communities, Uganda: Results From the LaVIISWA Cluster-randomized Trial.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2019Trial
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- Pet ownership is associated with increased risk of non-atopic asthma and reduced risk of atopy in childhood: findings from a UK birth cohort.Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2015Trial
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- Association of factors with childhood asthma and allergic diseases using latent class analysis.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Temporal Trends of Asthma Among Children in the Western Pacific Region From 1990 to 2045: Longitudinal Observational Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Observational
- Obesity at the age of 4-5 related to asthma diagnosis in later childhood: A longitudinal study using linked routinely collected data from Wales.International journal of population data science · 2024Article
- Association between antibiotic usage during infancy and asthma incidence among children: a population-level ecological study in British Columbia, Canada.Frontiers in allergy · 2024Article
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- Epithelial Barrier Theory: The Role of Exposome, Microbiome, and Barrier Function in Allergic Diseases.Allergy, asthma & immunology research · 2023Review
- The importance of definitions in the measurement of long-term health conditions in childhood. Variations in prevalence of long-term health conditions in the UK using data from the Millennium Cohort Study, 2004-2015.International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2022Article
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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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