A. Castro Iglesias's research while affiliated with University of A Coruña and other places
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Publications (2)
The prevalence of asthma and rhinitis is high in childhood and has been increasing in the last few years. In both diseases underdiagnosis is frequent.
To asses the prevalence of asthma and rhinitis symptoms in childhood.
We performed a cross-sectional study using a written questionnaire, following the methodology of the International Study of Asthm...
Introduction
The prevalence of asthma and rhinitis is high in childhood and has been increasing in the last few years. In both diseases underdiagnosis is frequent.
Objective
To asses the prevalence of asthma and rhinitis symptoms in childhood.
Material and methods
We performed a cross-sectional study using a written questionnaire, following the m...
Citations
... 16 However, they may present problems in the diagnostic process as they generate a broad variability in the perception of symptoms because of self-selection and recall biases. 18 The sensitivity and specificity are not elevated, and hence other complementary studies such as measuring bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR) are required, which presents a high specificity albeit with low sensitivity. Nevertheless, the validity of questionnaires seems to be reasonably demonstrated as they have been compared with BHR measurements 3 to establish an asthma diagnosis without having shown a diagnostic superiority for epidemiological studies with the use of complementary tests. ...
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... A written questionnaire previously translated and validated in Spanish was used for the purpose of this study. 9,10 The population studied were two groups of children, one with 6---7 year-olds (young children), and another with 13---14 year-olds (adolescents), from six of the main Health Areas in Galicia (Spain), which include a population of 1.9 million (69%) of the total population of the Autonomous Community. The schools required to include 1000 validated questionnaires from each Health Area were randomly selected, and included all children of the targeted age range in each school. ...
