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Impact of lockdowns on paediatric asthma hospital presentations over three waves of COVID-19 pandemic.
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Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology . 6/16/2022, Vol. 18 Issue 1, p1-6. 6p. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Public health measures to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic have altered health care for chronic conditions. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on paediatric asthma, the most common chronic respiratory cause of childhood hospitalisation, in Australia, remains unknown. In a multicentre study, we examined the impact of three waves of COVID-19 on paediatric asthma in New South Wales Australia. Time series analysis was performed to determine trends in asthma hospital presentations in children aged 2–17 years before (2015–2019) and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020–2021) using emergency department and hospital admission datasets from two large tertiary paediatric hospitals. In this first report from Australia, we observed a significant decrease in asthma hospital presentations during lockdown periods including April (68.85%), May (69.46%), December (49.00%) of 2020 and August (66.59%) of 2021 compared to pre-pandemic predictions. The decrease in asthma hospital presentations coincided with the lockdown periods during first, second and third waves of the COVID-19 pandemic and was potentially due to reduced transmission of other common respiratory viruses from restricted movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17101484
- Volume :
- 18
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 157505015
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s13223-022-00691-1