PREVALENCE OF ASTHMA AMONG MEDICAL STUDENTS

Asthma is a disease that hurts the airways inside the lungs. It causes the tissue inside the airways to swell. Asthma also causes the bands of muscle around the airways to become narrow. This makes it hard for enough air to pass through and for the person to breathe normally. This cross-sectional study was conducted among medical students of different medical colleges. Name, age, gender, presence or absence of asthma and frequency of asthma were noted on a predefined proforma. All the data was entered and analyzed with SPSS Ver. 23.0. There were 100 medical students in this study. There were 60 males (60%) and 40 females (40%). The mean age of the students was 20.23±1.23 years. Out of 100 students, five were suffering from occasional asthma and they use bronchodilators for this condition. One female student had frequent attacks of asthma and keeps visiting the pulmonologist often.