The role of anamnestic screening and the study of nonspecific resistance in mass examinations for the purpose of detecting preasthma

: The paper is concerned with a possibility of the use of an additional anamnestic test for selection of a group at risk for bronchial asthma during mass screenings of the community. The authors made use of the data obtained during examination of over 700 persons aged 18 to 59 years, both healthy and afflicted with bronchial asthma of varying severity. The proposed additional test was compared with conventional methods used in the anamnestic screening. Status-metry was used to design a functional model of classification of patients suffering from mild and grave bronchial asthma. Using this model, the most informative signs could be selected among nine immunologic and anamnestic signs.