Abstract
The results were obtained by two centres in Russia (Moscow and Tomsk) as part of the international epidemiological study under the GA2LEN programme. The total number of polled adolescents aged 15 to 18 was 12,803 with 2014 subjects, included in the statistical analysis (1004 subjects in Moscow, and 1010 in Tomsk). The male subjects accounted for 44.6% and female subjects for 55.4%. The age was 15.48±0.02 years. The cumulative disease incidence was determined as a totality of all the disease cases registered during the past year and in the previous follow-up period. Prevalence is the registered disease cases in which primary visits took place during the calendar year.
The cumulative allergic rhinitis (AR) incidence totaled 34.2%, which significantly exceeds official statistics. The female subjects indicated much more often the presence of AR compared to the male subjects (37.35% and 30.42% respectively at p=0,044). The symptoms of the ongoing AR were found in 86.45% of the total respondents who had indicated the cumulative rhinitis incidence. The follow-up results indicate significant variance from the official statistics (in 2008, the official AR incidence in Moscow was 599.2 per 100,000).
The percentage of the female subjects with AR symptoms, however, was reliably higher than that in Moscow (p=0.042), with the cumulative rhinitis incidence registered more often compared with the ongoing AR both for the entire population and for Moscow (at p=0.0125 and p=0.026 respectively). Prevalence of symptoms for allergic rhinitis was significantly higher than the diagnosed disease forms. The data obtained using standardised tools will help optimise the existing programmes for preventing and diagnosing allergic rhinitis.
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