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Asthma-related deaths

Overview of attention for article published in Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine, October 2016
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Title
Asthma-related deaths
Published in
Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine, October 2016
DOI 10.1186/s40248-016-0073-0
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Authors

Gennaro D’Amato, Carolina Vitale, Antonio Molino, Anna Stanziola, Alessandro Sanduzzi, Alessandro Vatrella, Mauro Mormile, Maurizia Lanza, Giovanna Calabrese, Leonardo Antonicelli, Maria D’Amato

Abstract

Despite major advances in the treatment of asthma and the development of several asthma guidelines, people still die of asthma currently. According to WHO estimates, approximately 250,000 people die prematurely each year from asthma. Trends of asthma mortality rates vary very widely across countries, age and ethnic groups. Several risk factors have been associated with asthma mortality, including a history of near-fatal asthma requiring intubation and mechanical ventilation, hospitalization or emergency care visit for asthma in the past year, currently using or having recently stopped using oral corticosteroids (a marker of event severity), not currently using inhaled corticosteroids, a history of psychiatric disease or psychosocial problems, poor adherence with asthma medications and/or poor adherence with (or lack of) a written asthma action plan, food allergy in a patient with asthma. Preventable factors have been identified in the majority of asthma deaths. Inadequate education of patients on recognising risk and the appropriate action needed when asthma control is poor, deficiencies in the accuracy and timing of asthma diagnosis, inadequate classification of severity and treatment, seem to play a part in the majority of asthma deaths. Improvements in management, epitomized by the use of guided self-management systems of care may be the key goals in reducing asthma mortality worldwide.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 211 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 35 17%
Student > Master 22 10%
Researcher 20 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 9%
Other 14 7%
Other 31 15%
Unknown 70 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 53 25%
Nursing and Health Professions 17 8%
Immunology and Microbiology 10 5%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 10 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 4%
Other 36 17%
Unknown 76 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 22. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 August 2022.
All research outputs
#1,694,736
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine
#24
of 307 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#29,685
of 326,099 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine
#2
of 9 outputs
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