Caracterización de los pacientes ingresados por asma bronquial

a descriptive and retrospective study of 119 patients who were hospitalized due to bronchial asthma in "emilio barcenas pier" hospital, was performed during the first semester of 1998 in ii frente municipality of santiago de cuba province so as to determine the behaviour of hospitalizations for bronchial asthma. the most important results found were the following: a greater incidence in the age group under 5 years old, the female sex was the prevailing one, the urban origin was the one of greater incidence and the 3rd degree of the disease was the one that prevailed most. the months of january and february presented the greatest number of admissions, followed by march and april: the prophylatic treatment was known in the majority of the patients and only a small percentage of them performed it. the rest of the patients did not know it.