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K Knol

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Corticosteroid inhalation in the treatment of childhood asthma.

Inhaled corticosteroids are a dramatic advance in the therapy of chronic asthma. Corticosteroid inhalation therapy in children offers the same advantages over oral medication as in adults. Inhaled corticosteroids have better effects compared with other prophylactic antiasthma therapy such as theophylline, sodium cromoglycate and ketotifen. However, it is obvious that inhaled corticosteroids are not completely free of side effects, both topical and systemic such as suppression of HPA, growth retardation, osteoporosis, cataract formation, blood count and immunoglobulin changes, oropharyngeal candidiasis and dysphonia. Recently, many clinicians have been using this effective and save treatment more freely and for longterm administration.

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Risk factors in smoking habits of high school students.

Although the hazards of smoking is well known, the number of smokers among high school students is still high. There are many factors influencing these students to start smoking. This study was conducted to discover the size of the population of smokers among high school students is still high. There are many factors influencing these students to start smoking. This study was conducted to discover the size of the population of smokers among high school students, their smoking behaviour, and what factors might be associated as risk factors. Questionnaires were filled by 1627 respondents between 12 and 22 years of age of which 955 (58.7%) are boys and 672 (41.3%) are girls. Among all male respondents there were found 622 (86.2%) experimental smokers; among all the girls there were only 99 (13.7%) experimental smokers. From the total number of experimental smokers, 377 (95.2%) boys and 19 (4.8%) girls eventually became smokers. One hundred and seventeen (16.2%) students tried smoking before 13 years old, 65 of these students became smokers. This study found that socio-economic status, parents, friends, and siblings who smoked, and social environment, have significant influence on high school students' smoking habits. To prevent and lower the number of smokers among students in high schools, health and smoking education must be started in the schools as early as possible.

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