RHINITIS: EPIDEMIOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE lN PORTUGAL

Authors

  • Mário Morais-Almeida Serviço de lmunoalergologia, Hospital de Dona Estefânia, Lisboa
  • Carlos Nunes Centro de lmunoalergologia do Algarve, Porlimão
  • Ângela Gaspar Serviço de lmunoalergologia, Hospital de Dona Estefânia, Lisboa
  • Manuel Branco-Ferreira Unidade de lmunoalergologio, Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisboa.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34631/sporl.482

Keywords:

Epidemiology, Portugal, prevalence, se verity, rhinitis

Abstract

Over the lost decades, there was a substantial increase in the prevalence of allergic rhinitis, being subdiagnosis and subtreatment generally accepted as a major hazard for the quality of life of those patients, suffering with this chronic inflammatory disease.

The aim of this review is to present national epidemiological data an the prevalence of rhinitis, characterizing some risk factors, and stressing the need of an accurate diagnosis of this clinical situation, so prevalent in our country.

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How to Cite

Morais-Almeida, M., Nunes, C., Gaspar, Ângela, & Branco-Ferreira, M. (2006). RHINITIS: EPIDEMIOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE lN PORTUGAL. Portuguese Journal of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, 44(2), 149–160. https://doi.org/10.34631/sporl.482

Issue

Vol. 44 No. 2 (2006): Junho

Section

Original Article