Harju T, Keistinen T, Tuuponen T, Kivelä S L
Department of Public Health Science and General Practice, University of Oulu, Finland.
Allergy. 1996 Oct;51(10):693-6.
Asthma-related hospital admissions and the occurrence of new admissions were studied by age and sex in order to find the groups of asthmatics with high hospital admission rates. Data from the Finnish discharge register for 1972-92 were used to analyze the number of hospital admissions caused by asthma (defined in the International Classification of Diseases, 8th and 9th revisions, code 493) and occurrence of new asthma admissions between 1983 and 1992. A total of 192195 asthma-induced treatment periods were identified, 91223 for males and 100972 for females. Boys were admitted twice as often as girls at the age of 1 year (11.2 in comparison with 5.9 admissions per 1000 per year), whereas the admission rate was consistently higher among women 25-55 years of age. The highest asthma admission rate among the elderly was at age 73 for men (10.3 per 1000) and 75 for women (9.5 per 1000). Occurrences of new asthma admissions were most frequent at the age of 1 year (5.3 per 1000 for boys and 2.9 per 1000 for girls) and remained constant among those aged 50-80 years. Asthma is not only a disease of childhood and adolescence. The number of middle-aged and elderly asthmatics requiring hospitalization is markedly high.
为了找出哮喘住院率高的哮喘患者群体，对与哮喘相关的住院情况以及新入院病例的发生情况按年龄和性别进行了研究。利用芬兰1972 - 1992年出院登记数据，分析哮喘导致的住院次数（根据《国际疾病分类》第8版和第9版，编码493定义）以及1983年至1992年新哮喘入院病例的发生情况。总共确定了192195个因哮喘导致的治疗周期，其中男性为91223个，女性为100972个。1岁时男孩的入院频率是女孩的两倍（分别为每1000人每年11.2次和5.9次入院），而25 - 55岁女性的入院率一直较高。老年人中哮喘入院率最高的是男性73岁时（每1000人中有10.3人）和女性75岁时（每1000人中有9.5人）。新哮喘入院病例最常发生在1岁时（男孩每1000人中有5.3人，女孩每1000人中有2.9人），在50 - 80岁人群中保持稳定。哮喘不仅是儿童和青少年时期的疾病。需要住院治疗的中年和老年哮喘患者数量明显较高。
