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The Global Asthma Network rationale and methods for Phase I global surveillance: prevalence, severity, management and risk factors.

Ellwood, P; Asher, MI; Billo, NE; Bissell, K; Chiang, C-Y; Ellwood, EM; El-Sony, A; García-Marcos, L; Mallol, J; Marks, GB; et al. Ellwood, P; Asher, MI; Billo, NE; Bissell, K; Chiang, C-Y; Ellwood, EM; El-Sony, A; García-Marcos, L; Mallol, J; Marks, GB; Pearce, NE; Strachan, DP (2017) The Global Asthma Network rationale and methods for Phase I global surveillance: prevalence, severity, management and risk factors. Eur Respir J, 49 (1). p. 1601605. ISSN 1399-3003 https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.01605-2016
SGUL Authors: Strachan, David Peter

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Abstract

The Global Asthma Network (GAN), established in 2012, followed the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC). ISAAC Phase One involved over 700 000 adolescents and children from 156 centres in 56 countries; it found marked worldwide variation in symptom prevalence of asthma, rhinitis and eczema that was not explained by the current understanding of these diseases; ISAAC Phase Three involved over 1 187 496 adolescents and children (237 centres in 98 countries). It found that asthma symptom prevalence was increasing in many locations especially in low- and middle-income countries where severity was also high, and identified several environmental factors that required further investigation.GAN Phase I, described in this article, builds on the ISAAC findings by collecting further information on asthma, rhinitis and eczema prevalence, severity, diagnoses, asthma emergency room visits, hospital admissions, management and use of asthma essential medicines. The subjects will be the same age groups as ISAAC, and their parents. In this first global monitoring of asthma in children and adults since 2003, further evidence will be obtained to understand asthma, management practices and risk factors, leading to further recognition that asthma is an important non-communicable disease and to reduce its global burden.

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Keywords: Respiratory System, 11 Medical And Health Sciences
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: Academic Structure > Population Health Research Institute (INPH)
Journal or Publication Title: Eur Respir J
ISSN: 1399-3003
Language: eng
Dates:
DateEvent
11 January 2017Published
12 October 2016Accepted
PubMed ID: 28077477
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URI: https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/108390
Publisher's version: https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.01605-2016

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