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Respiratory Medicine

Volume 89, Issue 6, July 1995, Pages 415-417
Respiratory Medicine

Original article
Adult Asian acute asthma admissions reassessed: Blackburn 1991–1992

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Abstract

Two hundred and fifty-five admissions for acute asthma with a minimum 25% PEFR improvement in patients aged 15–44 years were studied in 1991–1992. Two hundred of these patients were in the white ethnic group (84 male; 116 female) with 33 (17·4%) being readmissions (15 male; 18 female). Fifty-five admissions (19 male; 36 female) were in the Indian subcontinent (ISC) ethnic group with 3 (5·5%; all female) readmissions. The readmission rate was significantly higher in the white ethnic group (χ2=4·83; 0·05<P<0·01). Admission rates per thousand population in 5-yr cohorts were calculated from the 1991 Census data. The admission rate was higher in the ISC ethnic group in all cohorts except females aged 15–19 years, and was significantly higher in males aged 15–19 years and 40–44 years, and in all four cohorts between 25–44 years in females. Initial PEFR and % initial PEFR/highest PEFR did not suggest increased severity of asthma in the ISC ethnic group.

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