作者
Hywel Williams, Colin Robertson, Alistair Stewart, Nadia Aït-Khaled, Gabriel Anabwani, Ross Anderson, Innes Asher, Richard Beasley, Bengt Björkstén, Michael Burr, Tadd Clayton, Julian Crane, Philippa Ellwood, Ulrich Keil, Chris Lai, Javier Mallol, Fernando Martinez, Edwin Mitchell, Stephen Montefort, Neil Pearce, Jayant Shah, Bonnie Sibbald, David Strachan, Erika Von Mutius, Stephan K Weiland
发表日期
1999/1/1
期刊
Journal of allergy and clinical immunology
卷号
103
期号
1
页码范围
125-138
出版商
Mosby
简介
Background
Little is known about the prevalence of atopic eczema outside Northern Europe.
Objectives
We sought to describe the magnitude and variation in the prevalence of atopic eczema symptoms throughout the world.
Methods
A cross-sectional questionnaire survey was conducted on random samples of schoolchildren aged 6 to 7 years and 13 to 14 years from centers in 56 countries throughout the world. Those children with a positive response to being questioned about the presence of an itchy relapsing skin rash in the last 12 months that had affected their skin creases were considered to have atopic eczema. Children whose atopic eczema symptoms resulted in sleep disturbance for 1 or more nights per week were considered to have severe atopic eczema.
Results
Complete data was available for 256,410 children aged 6 to 7 years in 90 centers and 458,623 children aged 13 to 14 years in 153 centers …
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