Prevalence of asthma in North Africa: the Asthma Insights and Reality in the Maghreb (AIRMAG) study

Respiratory Medicine
Salim NaftiAbdelkader El Hasnaoui

Abstract

Bronchial asthma is the most frequent chronic respiratory disease in both adults and children. The prevalence and burden of asthma vary considerably between different regions of the world. Information on asthma in Africa is fragmentary and relatively old. The objective of this cross-sectional epidemiological survey was to determine the prevalence and burden of asthma in the North African countries of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia using the methodology developed in the Asthma Insights and Reality (AIR) programme. A general population sample was generated using a stratified sampling method based on randomly-generated lists of telephone numbers. The target sample consisted of 10,000 households in each country, which were contacted by telephone. A structured interview was proposed. Two screening questions were asked to identify subjects with asthma. Subjects who met these criteria were then questioned in more detail about their asthma. Of 30 350 households contacted, 1090 subjects with asthma were identified of whom 872 provided complete data. The age- and gender-adjusted prevalence of asthma was 3.45% [95% CI: 3.09 3.80%] in Algeria, 3.89% [95% CI: 3.52 4.27%] in Morocco and 3.53% [95% CI: 3.18 3.89%] in Tunisia. Prevalence was hig...Continue Reading

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