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Abstract
Asthma is a chronic childhood disorder that affects growth as any
other chronic disorder, and is one of the most common chronic disorder
that is met with in the outpatient clinic. chronic childhood disorders have
attracted much attention in the recent years. This is due to development of
increasing survivorship of these children because of the development of
improved methods of treatment and the better evaluation of the disease
and their management.
There are many risk factors affecting bronchial asthma ,there are
few reports available in literature regarding the relationship of anemia
with childhood asthma.
This study was conducted to evaluate iron deficiency anemia as a
risk factor for childhood asthma and its possible effect on PFTs.
This study included one hundred children with upper or lower
respiratory tract infection that were classified into:
Group I: 50 children with iron deficiency anemia their ages were
ranging from 6 to 16 years and mean was 10.2± 3.1 that was subdivided
into:
Group Ia: 33 asthmatic children (66%)
Group Ib: 17 non asthmatic children (34%)
Group II: 50 children without iron deficiency anemia, their ages
were ranging from 6 to 16 years and mean was 10.9±3.2 that was
subdivided into:
Group IIa: 12 asthmatic children (24%)
Group IIb: 38 non-asthmatic children (76%)
All patients were subjected to:
I- Full history taking and physical examination:
II - Laboratory investigations:
• Complete blood count.
• Serum ferritin level.
• Kidney function tests.
• Liver function tests.
III- Plain Chest X-ray P-A view:
IV- Pulmonary function testing:
Results:
The study showed that there was no statistical significant
difference between group I and group II as regarding age and BMI.
The study showed that there was statistical significant difference
between group I and group II as regarding sex distribution.
The study also revealed that the number of asthmatic cases were
significantly higher in-group I than group II.
The study showed that there was significant positive correlation
between hemoglobin level and pulmonary function parameters (FEV1,
FVC, FEV1/FVC,PEF ) in (group Ia).
There was significant positive correlation between serum ferritin
level and pulmonary function paramters (FEV1, FVC, FEV1/FVC, PEF) in
group Ia however there was non significant positive correlation between
serum ferritin and postbronchodilators changes in FEV1.
The study showed that there was statistical significant difference
between the anemic group and non-anemic group as regarding PFTs as
PFTs were better in non-anemic group.