Acute Respiratory Tract Infections in Children |
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Authors: | G. HARSTEN,K. PRELLNER,J. HELDRUP,O. KALM,R. KORNFÄ LT |
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Affiliation: | Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden;Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACT. 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. |
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Keywords: | respiratory tract infection children day-care |
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