Severe and Fatal Asthma: 559 Risk Factors for Bronchial Asthma in Central Havana in the Period 1995–2010

摘要

BackgroundResults of research conducted in Havana (Centro Habana municipality's population) in the period 1995 to 2010 to evaluate possible risk factors for death from asthma are presented. The objective was to determine the correlation between the factors that influence asthma deaths in this country. Assessing risk factors for asthma death psychosocial factors, occupation, housing conditions, work and study center, smoking, comorbid illnesses by organ systems, level of care between exacerbations and in them, background risk of death from asthma, perennial or discontinuation of corticosteroids recent assistance to emergency services or hospitalization in the last year of the death, level of care between exacerbations and in them, and severity of the allergic family history and place and date of death.