Study On Risk Factors And Countermeasure Of Bronchial Asthma In Rural Areas Of Zongyang County Anhui Province

Objective:In order to survey bronchial asthma prevalence and its risk factors in rural areas of Anhui province, an epidemiology study of rural inhabitants with bronchial asthma was carried out in three county of Anhui province,for the purpose of providing b- asis for prevention and management of bronchial asthma. Using uniform scheme, procedure and questionaire, performing stratified-cluster-disproportionalrandom-sampling survey for the population in the areas, a tatal of 21649 inhabitants were investigated in this study. All the original data were inputted into soft discs in the same form of data base structure variable definition table , and then were ststistically analysed with spss 10.0 for windows on pentum computer. The main results were as follows:甌he overall prevence rate of rural inhabitants of super-i 5-year old with bronchial asthma in Anhui province was 1 .54%,the ratio of male was 1.54% and the ratio of female was 1.19% ;there was a great difference in various age groups;the prevalence rates of education was the highest in iliteracy;the prevalence rate of occupation was the highest in fishman,the prevalence rate in the poor marriage was higher than that in good marriage;there were significant difference in ages,sexes,educational levels,occupations and marriage states.㏕he prevalence rate of bronchial asthma in the smoking people was higher than that in no-smoking people,there was significant difference in smoking states.甌he prevalence rate of bronchial asthma in the people who were in drinking was higher than that of people in no-drinking,there was nosignificant difference in drinking states.㊣n rural inhabitants living conditions,the main influent factors were the time for warm in winter ,house types,ground types,wall types,ect.The condition ofpatients were severe with time for warm in winter,there was significant difference in living conditionsX~The prevalence rate of bronchial asthma in the people who were drinking strong tea was higher than that of people without drinking tea,there was significanct difference in tea-drinking.甀n food and drinking states,eating vegetable and fruit frequently is a good factor to bronchial asthma. ㏕he prevalence rate of bronchial asthma in the workman who exposure to dust air was higher than that of workman who exposure to clean air.Some risk factors associated with bronchial asthma were identified in rural areas of Zongyang county Anhui province. The relative data will provide basis for research work concerned and mass prevention and treatment of asthma.