The incidence of chronic pulmonary diseases and pneumonia in adolescent population groups for Moscow

Abstract

Morbidity analyses of pulmonary diseases among Moscow adolescents of 15— 17 years of age, proceeding from official municipal statistics for 1991— 1994, revealed growing incidence of bronchial asthma, allergic rhinitis and chronic diseases of upper respiratory tracts (p<0.001), and reverse trends for pneumonia (p<0.05). Our studies specified the incidence geography for preventive efforts as several districts demonstrated peak morbidity of chronic pulmonary diseases: bronchial asthma and chronic bronchitis for the city north; chronic pharyngitis and sinusitis for the northeast; allergic rhinitis for the west and southwest; bronchial asthma for satellite town Zelenograd; and bronchial asthma, and chronic pharyngitis, sinuitis, adenoiditis and tonsillitis for the city centre. Figures for the other parts of the city were within the average, while differences between the districts for pneumonia morbidity 1 were statistically negligible.