Universidade Federal de Goiás, Escola de Enfermagem, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Goiânia, GO, Brazil.
Universidade Federal de Goiás, Departamento de Epidemiologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Medicina Tropical e Saúde Pública, Goiânia, GO, Brazil.
J Pediatr (Rio J). 2021 May-Jun;97(3):309-314. doi: 10.1016/j.jped.2020.05.004. Epub 2020 Jun 22.
To analyze the trend of hospitalizations for asthma in children and adolescents by region and age group in Brazil, from 2008 to 2017.
This is a time-series study with secondary data regarding hospitalizations for asthma in children and adolescents, according to age, region, and gender. Descriptive statistics procedures were used with measures of central tendency to calculate the variation between the periods of 2008 and 2017. Rates of hospitalizations were calculated specifically by age group and region. Time trend analysis was performed by simple linear regression, considered as stationary (p>0.05), declining (p<0.05 and negative regression coefficient), or ascending (p<0.05) and positive regression coefficient).
The present study identified a higher proportion of hospitalizations for asthma in Brazil in children aged 5-9 years. Regarding gender, there were more hospitalizations in boys. The region that presented the highest proportion of hospitalizations, in all age groups investigated, was the Northeast. As for the trend analysis, this article showed that, in Brazil, there was a trend toward a reduction in hospitalization rates for asthma.
In Brazil, there was a tendency to reduce hospitalizations for all investigated age groups. The Northeast was the only region that showed a decline in all age groups.
分析 2008 年至 2017 年巴西按地区和年龄组划分的儿童和青少年哮喘住院趋势。
这是一项时间序列研究，利用关于儿童和青少年哮喘住院的二次数据，按年龄、地区和性别进行分析。采用集中趋势的描述性统计程序来计算 2008 年至 2017 年期间的变化。按年龄组和地区专门计算住院率。通过简单线性回归进行时间趋势分析，认为其为平稳（p>0.05）、下降（p<0.05 和负回归系数）或上升（p<0.05 和正回归系数）。
本研究发现，巴西儿童和青少年中哮喘住院比例较高的年龄组为 5-9 岁。关于性别，男孩的住院人数更多。在所有研究的年龄组中，住院比例最高的地区是东北部。就趋势分析而言，本文表明，巴西的哮喘住院率呈下降趋势。
在巴西，所有研究年龄组的住院人数都有减少的趋势。东北部是唯一一个在所有年龄组都下降的地区。
