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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lin, J T
• Wang, W Q
• Zhou, X
• Wang, C Z
• Huang, M
• Cai, S X
• Chen, P
• Lin, Q C
• Zhou, J Y
• Gu, Y H
• Yuan, Y D
• Sun, D J
• Yang, X H
• Yang, L
• Huo, J M
• Chen, Z C
• Jiang, P
• Zhang, J
• Ye, X W
• Liu, H G
• Tang, H P
• Liu, R Y
• Liu, C T
• Zhang, W
• Hu, C P
• Chen, Y Q
• Liu, X J
• Dai, L M
• Zhou, W
• Huang, Y J
• Xu, J Y

Titel

Warning symptoms of asthma attack and asthma self-management: a national asthma control survey from China

Ist Teil von

• Zhong hua yi xue za zhi, 2017-08, Vol.97 (30), p.2329-2332

Ort / Verlag

China

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

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MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• To investigate warning symptoms of asthma attack and evaluate asthma self-management status of asthma patients in urban China. A multi-center, cross-sectional, questionnaire-based survey was carried out from 30 general hospitals dispersed in 30 provinces of mainland China (except for Tibet) during Oct 2015 to May 2016. Information of frequency and warning symptoms of asthma attack, the time from warning symptoms to asthma attack, the impact of asthma attack and asthma self-management were collected from asthma patients of outpatient department. Altogether 3 875 asthmatic outpatients were recruited. 78.1% (3 026/3 875) of the patients reported restriction of exercise and daily activities during asthma exacerbation. 82.5% (3 160/3 829) of the patients had warning symptoms before asthma attack, the most common warning symptoms were cough, chest tightness and shortness of breath. The median time from warning symptoms to asthma attack was 2 h, the mean time was 90 h. Only 4.4% (167/3 829) of the patients had defin