Prevalencia de asma bronquial en pacientes pediátricos en el Hospital Guasmo Sur durante el año 2019.

Abstract

Background: Currently asthma is a cosmopolitan health problem that usually impacts 300 million people of all ages anywhere in the world. According to the Statistics and Census Service of Ecuador (INEC), as of 2010, Ecuador had registered 3,275 new cases of asthma, which is considered one of the most common childhood diseases. Aim: To estimate the prevalence of asthma in the pediatric population that attended the Guasmo Sur General Hospital in 2019. Methods: Observational, descriptive, cross-sectional, retrospective recovery, prevalence-type study. Patients ≤15 years old, with a presumptive or definitive diagnosis of bronchial asthma, were included. Results: During 2019, 1938 cases were attended, of which 91 had bronchial asthma, with a median age of 6 (1-5) years, being 39/91 (43%) women. Asthma was mild intermittent, mild persistent, and moderate persistent in. Mild intermittent, mild persistent, and moderate persistent asthma was estimated in 85/91 (93%), 2/91 (2%), and 4/91 (4%) cases. Conclusion: The in-hospital prevalence of asthma in the pediatric population that attended the Guasmo Sur General Hospital in 2019 was 47 (95% CI 38 - 57) cases per thousand patients.