Prevalence of asthma associated with deviated nasal septum in lahore, pakistan.
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2023
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UMT, Lhr
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Deviated nasal septum (DNS) is a common nasal abnormality that can causes persistent upper airway obstructions. Asthma was linked to the incidence of DNS with an obstructive symptom. This study was conducted to ascertain the prevalence of asthma among the Deviated Nasal Septum patients in Lahore city. This was an observational cross-sectional study and was conducted at the Lahore population among 250 randomly selected patients. Age between 20 to 50 years, both genders diagnosed with asthma and nasal septal defect and having symptoms from the last 3 or more months along with no history of surgery or injury or having septal defect by heredity or dentition were included. The data was collected from standardized Nasal Obstruction Symptom Evaluation, Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) and the Asthma Control Questionnaire. The data was computed through (SPSS-25.0v). For categorical data, frequency and percentages were used, and the chi-square test to establish the relationship between the various variables, with a p-value of > 0.05 considered significant. For the association of the data correlation was evaluated and standard deviation was used to measure the spread of values in a sample. According to the results, out of 250 patients Mean ± SD age was 35.35 ± 8.815, the male
and female ratio was the same n=125) and BMI was 28.49 ± 4.495. Out of 250 patients, the Mean ± SD value of Nasal obstruction and septoplasty effectiveness scale and total scoring was 70.92 ± 13.20, Asthma Control Questionnaire total scoring was 17.99±3.17 and Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) total scoring was 2.26 ± 0.749.Out of 250 patients there was significant association between Nasal Obstruction and Septoplasty Effectiveness Scale Total Scoring and asthma total scoring as p=0.038 (<0.05), asthma total scoring and PHQ-9 total scoring as p=0.028 (<0.05).The one sample t test shows significant association as p=0.000 (<0.05). In conclusion, the study found a significant association between deviated nasal septum and asthma. This suggests that patients with DNS may be at a higher risk of developing asthma. As well found mostly males are more prevalent in suffering from DNS.