RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Global Asthma Network rationale and methods for Phase I global surveillance: prevalence, severity, management and risk factors
JF European Respiratory Journal
JO Eur Respir J
FD European Respiratory Society
SP 1601605
DO 10.1183/13993003.01605-2016
VO 49
IS 1
A1 Philippa Ellwood
A1 M. Innes Asher
A1 Nils E. Billo
A1 Karen Bissell
A1 Chen-Yuan Chiang
A1 Eamon M. Ellwood
A1 Asma El-Sony
A1 Luis García-Marcos
A1 Javier Mallol
A1 Guy B. Marks
A1 Neil E. Pearce
A1 David P. Strachan
YR 2017
UL http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/49/1/1601605.abstract
AB 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.The Global Asthma Network undertakes global studies of asthma surveillance, management and risk factors http://ow.ly/h67s305t9vS