Stern Jessica, Pier Jennifer, Litonjua Augusto A
Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA.
Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Golisano Children's Hospital, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA.
Semin Immunopathol. 2020 Feb;42(1):5-15. doi: 10.1007/s00281-020-00785-1. Epub 2020 Feb 4.
Asthma is a clinical syndrome that affects all age groups. Asthma prevalence worldwide has seen a rapid increase in the latter part of the last century. Recent data has shown that asthma prevalence has plateaued and even decreased in some areas of the world, despite continuing to increase in other areas of the world. Many risk factors have been associated with asthma and the differences in distributions of these risk factors may explain the differences in prevalence. This article will review recent trends in the prevalence of asthma and recent studies that investigate risk factors of asthma.
哮喘是一种影响所有年龄组的临床综合征。在上个世纪后半叶，全球哮喘患病率迅速上升。最近的数据显示，尽管世界其他地区的哮喘患病率仍在上升，但在世界某些地区，哮喘患病率已趋于平稳甚至有所下降。许多风险因素与哮喘相关，这些风险因素分布的差异可能解释了患病率的差异。本文将综述哮喘患病率的近期趋势以及调查哮喘风险因素的最新研究。
