Author/Authors :
Eliseeva, Tatiana I. Department of Hospital Pediatrics - Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia , Geppe, Natalia A. Department of Children’s Diseases - I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia , Tush, Elena V. Department of Hospital Pediatrics - Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia , Khaletskaya, Olga V. Department of Hospital Pediatrics - Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia , Balabolkin, Ivan I. Department of Pulmonology and Allergology - Federal State Autonomous Institution “National Scientific and Practical Center of Children’s Health” of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia , Bulgakova, Vilya A. Department of Pulmonology and Allergology - Federal State Autonomous Institution “National Scientific and Practical Center of Children’s Health” of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia , Kubysheva, Nailya I. Research Laboratory “Medical Informatics” - Higher School of Information Technologies and Information Systems - Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia , Ignatov, Stanislav K. Department of Chemistry - Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Abstract :
Influence of bronchial asthma (BA) severity on physical development in children patients was evaluated in comparison with
healthy population. Materials and Methods. 1042 children and adolescents (768 boys) with atopic BA were evaluated. All children
underwent standard examination in a clinical setting, including anthropometry.The control group included 875 healthy children
of a comparable age (423 boys). Results. The fraction of patients with the normal, lower, and increased height among the whole
group of patients with BA is close to the corresponding values in the healthy population (𝜒2 = 3.32, 𝑝 = 0.65). The fraction of BA
patients with the reduced physical development is increasedmonotonically and significantlywhen the BAseverity increases: healthy
group, 8.2% (72/875), BA intermittent, 4.2% (6/144), BA mild persistent 9% (47/520), BA moderate persistent, 11.7% (36/308), and
BA severe persistent, 24.3% (17/70) (𝜒2 = 45.6, 𝑝 = 0,0009). Conclusion. The fraction of the children with the reduced height is
increased monotonically and significantly in the groups of increasing BA severities. At the same time, the fraction of such children
in groups of intermittent and mild persistent BA practically does not differ from the conditionally healthy peers.
Keywords :
Body , Height of Children , Bronchial , Asthma
