Sibilância em lactentes e fatores de risco associados na cidade de Recife - Pernambuco

• Ano de defesa: 2009
• Autor(a) principal: Peixoto, Décio Medeiros [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Epidemiologia; Asma; Asthma; Epidemiology; Fatores de risco; Infant; Lactente; Prevalence; Prevalência; Risk factors; Sibilância; Wheezing
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/10083

Objective: To determine the prevalence of wheezing in the first year of life in infants aged from 12 to 15 months old living in the city of Recife, Pernambuco and to study its relationship with gender and to identify wheezing associated risk factors. Methods: This sectional study was done according to the protocol “Estudio Internacional sobre Sibilância en Lactentes” (EISL) in children between 12 and 15 months of age. Parents or caregivers answered the standard EISL questionnaire when children attended a routine medical or immunization visit in public health facilities in Recife – Brazil. The end point was the answer to the question: Have your baby had chest wheezing or bronchitis in the first year of life? Those who have answered “yes” were identified as wheezing babies. Results: The questionnaire was answered by 1,071 parents or caregivers, between March and December 2007. The prevalence of wheezing was 43% and there wasn´t any difference between gender. Wheezing was significantly associated with a past history of pneumonia, family history of asthma, have had more than 9 upper airway infection episodes and to have had the first cold episode before 6 months of life (all with p<0.001). Conclusion: We observed that early and recurrent upper airway infections, previous episode of pneumonia, and family history of asthma were associated with wheezing in the first year of life in children in Recife-Brazil.