�Hospitalizations of children chiefly for bronchial asthma fell by almost 60,000 betwixt 1997 and 2006, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. However, the number of children wHO are admitted to hospitals to treat other atmospheric condition but wHO also have asthma rose by near 70,000 during the same menses.
In 2006, there were 335,000 hospital girdle for children with bronchial asthma. In 137,000 cases, the children were admitted specifically to treat bronchial asthma. In the remaining 197,000 cases the children had bronchial asthma but were being treated for another illness which is often directly related to bronchial asthma (for instance, pneumonia or bronchitis) .
AHRQ also found that:
- Children from poorer communities, where the average income was less than $37,000 a year, were 76 percent more likely to be admitted than those from wealthier communities, where the average income was greater than $37,000 a year (2.7 admissions per 1,000 children versus 1.5 admissions per 1,000 children, respectively).
- Poor children with bronchial asthma as a co-existing illness were 54 percent more likely to be hospitalized than children from wealthier communities (3.5 admissions per 1,000 children versus 2.3 admissions per 1,000 children, respectively).
- Infants under 1 year of age were four multiplication more likely to be hospitalized for asthma than children ages 15 to 17 (5.1 admissions per 1,000 children compared with 1.8 admissions per 1,000 children).
- Roughly 27 per centum of all children admitted for pneumonia also had asthma, as did 9 percent of those hospitalized for knifelike bronchitis; and 5 percentage for depression or bipolar disease.
Asthma is the most common chronic disorder in children. Attacks, normally characterized by shortness of breath, wheezing, coughing, dresser pain, anxiousness or scare, can be triggered by a wide range of causes including cigarette smoke, animal hair, colds, and allergies. Asthma is usually managed by office doctors but when the disease gets out of restraint, hospitalization is necessary.
This AHRQ News and Numbers is based on information from HCUP Statistical Brief #58: Hospital Stays Related to Asthma for Children, 2006. The report uses statistics from the 2006 Kids' Inpatient Database, a database of hospital inpatient stays of children that is nationwide representative of pediatric inmate stays in all short-term, non-Federal hospitals. Previous KID databases ar for 1997, 2000, and 2003. The data in the KID are for all children, regardless of their type of insurance type or whether they were insured person.
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