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  • Risk factors for respiratory syncytial virus bronchiolitis hospital admission in New Zealand

    Author(s)
    Grimwood, K
    Cohet, C
    Rich, FJ
    Cheng, S
    Wood, C
    Redshaw, N
    Cunningham, CW
    Pearce, N
    Kirman, JR
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Grimwood, Keith
    Year published
    2008
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    Abstract
    This study assessed risk factors for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) hospitalization and disease severity in Wellington, New Zealand. During the southern hemisphere winter months of 2003-2005, 230 infants aged <24 months hospitalized with bronchiolitis were recruited. RSV was identified in 141 (61%) infants. Comparison with data from all live hospital births from the same region (2003-2005) revealed three independent risk factors for RSV hospitalization: birth between February and July [adjusted risk ratio (aRR) 1網, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1籵-2粹], gestation <37 weeks (aRR 2粹, 95% CI 1紸-3絶) and Maori ethnicity (aRR 3綴, ...
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    This study assessed risk factors for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) hospitalization and disease severity in Wellington, New Zealand. During the southern hemisphere winter months of 2003-2005, 230 infants aged <24 months hospitalized with bronchiolitis were recruited. RSV was identified in 141 (61%) infants. Comparison with data from all live hospital births from the same region (2003-2005) revealed three independent risk factors for RSV hospitalization: birth between February and July [adjusted risk ratio (aRR) 1網, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1籵-2粹], gestation <37 weeks (aRR 2粹, 95% CI 1紸-3絶) and Maori ethnicity (aRR 3綴, 95% CI 2粷-5縵) or Pacific ethnicity (aRR 3綰, 95% CI 2籴-6簶). The high risk for Maori and Pacific infants was only partially accounted for by other known risk factors. This work highlights the importance of RSV disease in indigenous and minority populations, and identifies the need for further research to develop public health measures that can reduce health disparities.
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    Journal Title
    Epidemiology and Infection
    Volume
    136
    Issue
    10
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268807000180
    Subject
    Epidemiology
    Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
    Public Health and Health Services
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/60131
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