Kuroiwa Chushi, Odajima Hiroshi, Oudavong Bounleua, Ohta Nobuo, Zhang Zhuo, Miyoshi Miki, Nishima Sankei
Department of Health Policy and Planning, School of International Health, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health. 2006 Sep;37(5):1025-33.
An International Study of Asthma and Allergy in Childhood (ISAAC) revealed a wide range of prevalences of childhood asthma in the world. Lao PDR had no such epidemiological data yet. This study aimed to investigate the epidemiology of asthma, rhinitis, and eczema in children in the country. A cross-sectional study was conducted in Vientiane City, the capital of Lao PDR, in 1997 using the ISAAC questionnaire. From three primary schools and one high school, 395 children, age 6-7 years, and 468 children, age 13-14 years, were chosen. The prevalence of asthma for children aged 13-14 years in Lao PDR was 25.6%, which ranks the highest in international asthma prevalence. The prevalence in allergic-rhinoconjunctivitis of children was 24.4% and atopic eczema was 7.1%. Contrary to generally accepted risk factors, there were no associations revealed between asthma prevalence and smoking of family members (especially mothers), intake of fish/meat, and male gender.
一项儿童哮喘与过敏国际研究（ISAAC）揭示了全球儿童哮喘患病率的广泛差异。老挝人民民主共和国（老挝）尚无此类流行病学数据。本研究旨在调查该国儿童哮喘、鼻炎和湿疹的流行病学情况。1997年，在老挝首都万象市采用ISAAC问卷进行了一项横断面研究。从三所小学和一所高中选取了395名6至7岁的儿童以及468名13至14岁的儿童。老挝13至14岁儿童的哮喘患病率为25.6%，在国际哮喘患病率中排名最高。儿童过敏性鼻结膜炎的患病率为24.4%，特应性皮炎为7.1%。与普遍认可的风险因素相反，哮喘患病率与家庭成员（尤其是母亲）吸烟、鱼/肉摄入量以及男性性别之间未发现关联。
