| pubmed-article:9757770 | pubmed:abstractText | This study was carried out to determine the prevalence of several allergic diseases among elementary school children in Saga prefecture. A questionnaire was distributed to the parents of 2,795 children in 12 elementary schools located in urban, seaside and mountainous areas. The response rate was 92.8%. The prevalence rate of allergic diseases among school children was 24.6% (24.5% for boys and 21.5% for girls). The common types of allergic diseases among boys were allergic rhinitis (11.3%), atopic dermatitis (9.7%), and bronchial asthma (5.7%), and those among girls were atopic dermatitis (9.7%); allergic rhinitis (6.5%), and bronchial asthma (3.7%). Analysis by residential area of the children, showed that the prevalence rate of allergic diseases in total was increased in the order of mountainous (20.8%), seaside (24.1%) and urban area (28.7%). The most common type of allergic diseases was atopic dermatitis in urban and mountainous area, while allergic rhinitis was most common in seaside area. | lld:pubmed |
