"Risk Factors For Asthma Deaths"

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This paper provides a critical assessment of the 1999 article by Jalaludin, et al., which was published in the Australian and New Zealand Journals of Public Health, entitled "Risk Factors For Asthma Deaths: A Population-Based Case-Control Study". It looks at how the objectives of the paper by Jalaludin, et al. were to investigate risk factors for deaths from asthma, using a case-control study design with two control groups and how the study was prompted by a bout of deaths from asthma in New Zealand in 1970 for which the cause was unknown, but suspected to be fenoterol.

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"The Mitchell et al. (2002) questionnaire requested information on demographics, age at first diagnosis of asthma, duration of symptoms before diagnosis, self-assessment of severity, symptom frequency, medication use (by broad category and specific names), history of allergy, exposure to asthma triggers, the asthma trigger for the index episode, and feelings of vulnerability (Mitchell et al., 2002). The article under discussion was, again, not so thorough in terms of the rigor of the questionnaire used, and again, any conclusions drawn from such a questionnaire need to be looked at from the point of view of this caveat."

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