Asthma-related outcomes during the SARS-CoV2 pandemic: A single-center observational study.
Asthma-related outcomes during the SARS-CoV2 pandemic: A single-center observational study.
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10.1016/j.jaip.2021.05.034
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2021-09
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McGowan EC
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Al-Hazaymeh A;Patrie J;Adams JC;Borish L;McGowan EC
Asthma is a common chronic disease affecting approximately 7.5% of children and adults in the United States. 1 Respiratory viral infections are a frequent cause of asthma exacerbations, triggering up to 85% of exacerbations in children, of which rhinovirus (RV) consistently accounts for approximately 60% to 70%. 2, 3 Rhinovirus infections are common throughout the year; most do not produce exacerbations. 4 However, studies examining emergency department (ED) visits consistently demonstrate spikes in asthma exacerbations in the spring and fall, which correspond to allergy seasons in the northern hemisphere where the studies were conducted. 5 Subsequent studies demonstrated a clear link between RV-induced asthma exacerbations and aeroallergen exposure, resulting in a spring asthma “epidemic.” In 2019, a novel virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), appeared, leading to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. COVID-19 was first detected in Virginia on March 7, 2020, resulting in a call for social distancing and a stay-at-home order that was implemented from March 30 to June 8, 2020. We hypothesized that the implementation of these social distancing measures would lead to a decrease in RV infections and thus asthma exacerbations, particularly in the spring and fall. In this study, we examined whether measures of asthma exacerbation, including ED visits, outpatient steroid prescriptions, and documented RV infections, decreased among children and adults at the University of Virginia (UVA) from March to December 2020. Data were abstracted for patients aged 0 to 40 years, who were receiving care at the UVA Health System from January 1, 2016 until December 31, 2020. The UVA Medical Center Enterprise Data Warehouse system, which contains data sourced from UVA’s Electronic Medical Record System, was used to identify patients with a diagnosis of asthma with acute exacerbation using International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10) codes J45. 21, J45. 31, J45. 41, J45. 51, and J45. 901. Outpatient oral steroid use was defined as a prescription for systemic steroid preparations (prednisolone, prednisone, methylprednisolone, or dexamethasone) associated with any ICD-10 code for asthma (J45. 2-J45. 5 and J45. 9) as an outpatient, which includes outpatient or telemedicine visits, telephone calls, and orders placed at the end of ED or inpatient visits for outpatient use. An ED visit for an asthma exacerbation was defined as an ICD-10 code for asthma with acute exacerbation seen in the ED. Rhinovirus infections were defined as a positive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) detected on the outpatient or inpatient respiratory pathogens panel, which is distinct from the SARS-CoV2 assay at UVA. Data on race and ethnicity were extracted from the medical record based on patient self-report. The number of cases per month were collected for each outcome. Monthly RV infections were defined as the percentage of RV-positive tests among all RV PCR tests performed. For each outcome, segmented autocorrelation time series regression was conducted to determine whether the trend in monthly numbers for each outcome from January 2016 to March 2020 was different in April to December 2020. The transition point for these models was identified as April 1, 2020, because the Virginia stay-at-home order went into effect on March 30. For the outpatient steroid prescription, ED visits, and the percentage of RV-positive tests, the time series models were stratified a priori by age (0-5, 6-18, and 19-40 years), because the prevalence of RV-associated asthma exacerbations is lower in …
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14.2
作者:
Zambrano, JC;Carper, HT;Heymann, PW
通讯作者:
Heymann, PW
DOI:
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发表时间:
2007-03
期刊:
The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology
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DOI:
10.1016/j.jaip.2020.09.060
发表时间:
2021-01
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影响因子:
14.2
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作者:
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