Inje University College of Medicine Researchers Describe Recent Advances in Asthma (Prevalence of asthma in preterm and associated risk factors based on prescription data from the Korean National Health Insurance database): Lung Diseases and Conditions – Asthma

2023 MAR 31 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Business Daily -- Researchers detail new data in asthma. According to news reporting from Inje University College of Medicine by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “We retrospectively analyzed National Health Insurance claims data (January 2002-December 2018) to determine the asthma prevalence and risk factors among preterm infants born in Korea.”

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from Inje University College of Medicine: “Patients with asthma were defined as those with a history of asthma medication prescriptions at least twice per year with International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Edition codes J45 and J46. We enrolled 99,139 preterm infants. The prevalence of asthma among preterm and term infants was 32.7% and 26.9%, 21.2% and 19.1%, 6.7% and 5.9%, 2.0%, and 1.6%, and 2.4% and 1.6% at 2, 5, 10, 15, and 16 years of age, respectively. The relative risk (RR) of asthma in preterm infants was 1.1-fold that in female preterm infants. The RR of asthma medication prescriptions for infants with extreme prematurity was 1.92-fold that of infants with moderate/late pre-term status. Among preterm with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) and respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) without comorbidities, the RRs for the number of asthma medication prescriptions were 1.34 and 1.06, respectively.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “This study revealed a higher prevalence of asthma among preterm infants than that in term infants. Male sex, extreme prematurity, BPD, and RDS were identified as risk factors for asthma medication prescriptions in preterm infants.”

For more information on this research see: Prevalence of asthma in preterm and associated risk factors based on prescription data from the Korean National Health Insurance database. Scientific Reports, 2023,13(1):1-8. (Scientific Reports - http://www.nature.com/srep/index.html). The publisher for Scientific Reports is Nature Portfolio.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-31558-z.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Kwanghoon Kim, Department of Pediatrics, Busan Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine. Additional authors for this research include Ji Young Lee, Yoo-Mi Kim, Geena Kim, Eun-Hee Kim, Byoung Kook Lee, Hyejin So, Yoowon Kwon, Jeongmin Shin, Minji Kim.

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