Background: Communicating results to research participants is an issue frequently discussed in terms of ethics. It has specific features when involving large-scale paediatric cohorts. High-throughput biological explorations reveal also incidental findings of medical relevance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: There are no previous population-based studies assessing the prevalence of Blomia tropicalis (BT). This investigation analyzes the prevalence of sensitization to BT and its contribution to asthma and related diseases among young adults in the Canary Islands.
Material And Methods: From a random sample of 9506 adults, aged between 20 and 44, who had previously answered a short respiratory questionnaire, a further 20% random sample was drawn.
Objective: To evaluate the prevalence of and risk factors for asthma and related conditions in the Canaries, Spain.
Methods: From a randomised sample of 9506 adults aged 20-44 years who answered a short questionnaire, a random sample corresponding to 20% of the original was taken. Subjects classified as symptomatic in the previous survey and who were not included in the random sample were also invited to participate.
The worldwide variation in asthma prevalence prompted us to carry out a study to assess the variability of asthma-related symptoms in young adults on the islands of Gran Canaria and Tenerife. We used the questionnaire used in the European Community Respiratory Health Survey with the addition of two questions on smoking and ancestors from the Canary Islands. In each island, this questionnaire was distributed to a random sample of 5000 subjects aged 20-44 years.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To analyse the reliability of the obtained results in the identification of cases of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) diagnosed in the medical records of the emergency rooms of the <
Methods: In the context of a study on the relationship between emergency rooms for asthma and COPD and specific environmental risks, we revised all the emergency rooms medical records of people aged over 14 attended at the <