Asthmatic patients have a specific patterm of airway inflamation that underlies the clinical features. Corticosteroids known to be useful for controling asthma and have a mojor effect in reducting inflammation of the airway well, suppress the expression of various genes in the airway inflamation and repair the bronhial hyperresponsiveness. However, a few asthmatic patients show a poor or absent…
Prevalence of asthama is still rising in developed countries including Indonesian. Asthma is one of the most important diseases in childhood, causing substansial morbidity. This study using the ISAAC ( International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood) questionnaire to determine asthma prevalence in Junior High School Student especially 13-14 years old asthma medication patient among stu…
Introduction:Prevalence of asthma in children in Indonesia varies from 2.1% to 32.2% depends on location of the study and method of study (questionnaire vs bronchoprovocation testing). This study using the ISAAC (International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood) written questionnaire to measure asthma prevalence in 13-14 years old students in Jakarta, Indonesia. Methods:The ISAAC quest…
Introduction: Prevalence of asthma in children in Indonesia varies from 2.1% to 32.2% depends on location of the study and method of study (questionnaire vs bronchoprovocation testing). This study using the ISAAC (International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood) written questionnaire to measure asthma revalence in 13-14 years old students in Jakarta, Indonesia. Methods: The ISAAC ques…
Introduction: Asthma is a chronic inftammation disease, controlled asthma is a goal in management of asthma patients which essential as a parameter of successful therapy. To assessing controlled asthma the asthma control of patient accurately in a busy asthma clinic with limited time and resources is always a challenging to the clinician. Asthma Control Test (ACT) as a tool to assess of control…
Study objective: To investigate wheter combination of steroid (fiuticasone) and long acting 13, agonist (salmeterol) inhalation better than budesonide inhalation to control moderate persistent asthma by evaluation with Asthma Control Test and FEV, Design: Clinical trial with randomized pretest-postlest comparative group design ~ Se.tting: Moderate persistent asthma due to the GINA 2005 cr…
Introduction. Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a metabolic disorder. DM affects various organs of human body. Hyperglycaemic state can reduce lung function by decreasing elastin proteins and lung surfactans. Moreover, it can cause diffusion perfusion disorders. Haemoglobin A 1 c (HbA,ol describes previous 3 months of patient's glycaemic state. HbA" is a gold standard to determine controlled and uncont…
Gastroesophageal reflux diseases (GERD) close associated with any symptoms and airways disorders including chronic cough and asthma. The prevalence of GERD in asthma patients still unclear, approximately 34-89%. In many studies showed that approximately 55-82% asthma patients had GERD symptoms. Endoscopy finding from asthma patients showed that esophagitis prevalence is approximately 27-43%. Th…