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Continuing decline in acute asthma episodes in the community
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- Published on: 22 March 2016
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Dear Editor
We read with interest the paper by Sunderland and Fleming.[1]
In a community-based study of 12 year old boys and girls in Highland Region we found a significant fall in parent reported wheeze in the last 12 months from 19.2% in 1992 to 14.0% in 2000. In contrast there was a rise in a reported diagnosis of asthma (13.7% to 18.5%) and eczema (14.1% to 21.3%) over the same period. Treatment, def...
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