Eight-year Study on Spa Therapy for Patients with Chronic Respiratory Disease. Annual changes in background and characteristics of asthmatics.
- VernacularTitle:気管支ぜん息の温泉療法の年次推移 過去８年間の入院症例を対象に
- Author:
Yoshiro TANIZAKI
;
Hikaru KITANI
;
Morihiro OKAZAKI
;
Takashi MIFUNE
;
Fumihiro MITSUNOBU
;
Akimasa TAKATORI
;
Hiroyuki OKUDA
;
Mitsuhiro SODA
;
Kiyoshi TAKAHASHI
;
Ikuro KIMURA
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
bronchial asthma;
spa therapy;
clinical asthma type;
steroid therapy
- From:The Journal of The Japanese Society of Balneology, Climatology and Physical Medicine
1991;54(3):161-167
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
-
Abstract:
Annual changes in age, age at onset, incidence of cases with steroiddependent intractable asthma, clinical asthma types and clinical efficacy rate were examined in 256 patients with chronic respiratory diseases, especially in 203 cases with bronchial asthma, admitted to Misasa Branch Hospital from 1982 to 1989.
1. A number of patients with respiratory diseases as well as asthmatics admitted each year, having spa therapy, increased from early year (1982) to later year (1989).
2. A number in cases with 40 year or over of age (also with 60 year or over of age) and cases with 40 year or over of age at onset showed a tendency to increase in later three years (1987-1989). A decreased frequency of cases with steroid-dependent asthma and of cases with type II (bronchiolar obstruction type) was observed in the later three years.
3. The clinical efficacy of spa therapy for bronchial asthma was Niger in the later three years than in early three years (1982-1984).
