Clinical Characteristics Influencing the Asthmatic Crisis Intensity in Pediatrics

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María Z. Cázares Ramos
Diego H. Ramírez Leyva
María Citlaly Ochoa
Elizabeth Medina Valentón
José M. Ornelas Aguirre

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Objective: to determine the clinical characteristics that influence the asthmatic crisis intensity in pediatrics. Methods: analytical cross-sectional study. 148 patients who attended the Emergency Room for asthmatic crisis were studied. Severity was analyzed with the Wood Downes-Ferrés scale, and clinical and sociodemographic variables were measured as well. Results: the main symptoms were cough, wheezing and dyspnea. Seventy-one percent of the participants had no controller treatment and 78% presented an adequate nutritional status. A significant association was found between exposure to tobacco smoke and severity of asthmatic exacerbation. Patients exposed to tobacco smoke were ten times more at risk of presenting a moderate to severe crisis (or = 10.1, p<0.001). Conclusion: this study allowed us to identify a low frequency of controller treatment, high exposure to tobacco smoke was a risk factor for the presence of moderate to severe crisis in the studied population.

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Cázares Ramos, M. Z., Ramírez Leyva, D. H., Citlaly Ochoa, M., Medina Valentón, E., & Ornelas Aguirre, J. M. (2021). Clinical Characteristics Influencing the Asthmatic Crisis Intensity in Pediatrics. Atención Familiar, 28(4), 263–268. https://doi.org/10.22201/fm.14058871p.2021.4.80596

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