Viana, Elizabel de Souza RamalhoFonseca, Aline Medeiros Cavalcanti da2017-03-292017-03-292016-12-19FONSECA, Aline Medeiros Cavalcanti da. Associação entre asma, gênero e ciclo de vida feminino no Brasil: resultado da pesquisa nacional de saúde, 2013. 2016. 80f. Tese (Doutorado em Fisioterapia) - Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2016.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/22534Introduction: The gender difference is a subject under discussion for a long time, with many viewpoints and all them talk about health procedures and diseases that affects men and women. Asthma is a chronic disease that achieves 4.4% of the Brazilian population and becomes apparent by diverse ways between man and women, over the years. The Woman experiences many transformations in the lifelong and all them are someway related to the production of sexual hormones. The hormonal variation occurred in the women lifelong can explain the asthma behavior at hers adulthood. Objective: To investigate the association between asthma, gender and female life cycle in Brazil. Methods: This is a cross-sectional, population-based study, which used data from the National Health Survey (NHS) carried out in 2013 by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. Data were collected from 64,348 households and 205,546 people were interviewed. To the sample of this study were initially included data from 60,202 residents (34,282 women and 25,920 men), with ages from 18 years, that responded the individual questionnaire, and after a new cut, a sample of 32,347 women who had never received hormone replacement therapy were used. The variable outcome – have medical diagnosis of asthma - was evaluated by self-reporting, realized by trained interviewer, under NHS rules. The covariables were race/color, education, selfreported health, use of tobacco products, difficulty in locomotion, hypertension and diabetes. In the comparison only among women, the covariates on surgery to remove the uterus and to be in the menopause were included. Results: In the general adult population the women shows 43% more chance of having asthma diagnosis, over men (OR= 1.43; 95%CI 1.24-1.66). In the comparison between women of different age groups, women up to 49 years of age have more asthma than women between 50 and 65 years of age (ORAdjusted = 0.76, 95%CI 0.66-0.88), and that women with 66 years and over (ORAdjusted = 0.73, 95%CI 0.64-0.85). In the comparison between women aged 50-65 years and women aged 66 years and over, there is no statistically significant difference in the chance of having asthma (ORAdjusted= 1.01, 95%CI 0.83-1.24). Conclusions: In the sample of the Brazilian population researched, the adult women showed more chance of having asthma diagnostic over adult men. The childbearing aged women have more chance of having asthma diagnostic when compared to middle-aged and elderly women.Acesso AbertoAsmaSexoMulherEnvelhecimentoFases do ciclo de vidaHormônios esteroides gonadaisdoctoralThesisCNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::FISIOTERAPIA E TERAPIA OCUPACIONAL