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Acute Respiratory Tract Infections in Children
Author(s) -
HARSTEN G.,
PRELLNER K.,
HELDRUP J.,
KALM O.,
KORNFÄLT R.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1990.tb11484.x
Subject(s) - medicine , respiratory tract infections , pediatrics , medical diagnosis , acute care , day care , respiratory tract , health care , demography , respiratory system , nursing , pathology , sociology , economics , economic growth
. Respiratory tract infections (RTIs) in small children account for a considerable proportion of health care expenditure. In 113 children, followed for the first three years of life, we studied the frequency of acute RTI and its relationship to the factors: type of day‐care, age, sex, family size, living conditions, allergic predisposition, family smoking habits, and season. To elucidate the influence of age, the frequency of acute RTI and its relationship to type of day‐care was longitudinally studied on a quarterly basis. The frequency of acute RTI diagnosis increased gradually from birth culminating in a peak at the beginning of the second year. Besides age and season, type of day‐care was the only factor studied to show any relationship with the frequency of acute RTI diagnosis. Up to the age of almost 2 1/2 years, children attending day‐care centres accounted for more RTI diagnoses than did those in home care or family day‐care, categories with comparable frequncies.