Population-Based Study of Acute Respiratory Infections in Children, Greenland

• Other Authors: Koch, Anders, Sørensen, Per, Homøe, Preben, Mølbak, KÃ¥re, Pedersen, Freddy Karup, Mortensen, Tine, Elberling, Hanne, Eriksen, Anne Mette, Olsen, Ove Rosing, Melbye, Mads
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Research; Acute Disease; Cohort Studies; Female; Greenland; Humans; Infant; Interviews as Topic; Inuits; Male; Prospective Studies; Respiratory Tract Infections; Statistics; Nonparametric; Ari; Sisimiut; inuit; inuits
• Online Access: http://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/13832/

Acute respiratory infections (ARI) are frequent in Inuit children, in terms of incidence and severity. A cohort of 294 children <2 years of age was formed in Sisimiut, a community on the west coast of Greenland, and followed from 1996 to 1998. Data on ARI were collected during weekly visits at ho...