Kostas N Priftis

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ID10406256
NOMBREKostas N Priftis
NOMBRESKostas N
APELLIDOPriftis
FIRMAPRIFTIS K N
AFILIACIONESDepartment of Allergy and Pneumonology, Children’s Hospital of Pentelis, Athens, Greece
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS6
TOTAL DE CITAS0
OBRAS COMO AUTOR6
OBRAS COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2007
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2022
ÍNDICE H0

  • Clinical Course of Children with Chronic Suppurative Lung Disease or Bronchiectasis Infected with Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Open AccessElpiniki Kartsiouni, Stylianos Chatzipanagiotou et al.ARTICLEChildren2022

    Children with chronic wet cough and without cystic fibrosis (non-CF) may suffer from chronic suppurative lung disease (CSLD) or bronchiectasis. Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pa) can be one of the offending microbes in these children. The present study aimed to describe the clinical course of children with the above two conditions who were infected with Pa. Data of 54 children with CSLD/bronchiectasis who were diagnosed and attended in our department we…

  • Parental education moderates the association between indoor moisture environment and asthma in adolescents

    Open AccessGeorge Antonogeorgos, George Αntonogeorgos et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Adolescents whose parents had a higher education level had lesser odds to have asthma, even if they were exposed to a moisture home environment. This could be attributed to the increased knowledge about asthma risk factors and the improved measures for the amelioration of moisture-home environment that highly educated parents are more likely to take. Further research is needed in order to elucidate the interweaved role of family SES in the aforem…

  • Exploring the Relation between Atopic Diseases and Lifestyle Patterns among Adolescents Living in Greece

    Open AccessGeorge Αntonogeorgos, Kostas Ν Priftis et al.ARTICLEChildren2021

    A high weekly consumption of fruits, vegetables and pulses and low consumption of unhealthy foods was negatively associated with all atopic symptoms while adherence to a physical active lifestyle was inversely associated with asthma and allergic rhinitis symptoms and dairy products with asthma and eczema symptoms in the past 12 months after adjustment for several confounders (all p p < 0.05) Conclusions: Our findings suggest that a high fruit, ve…

  • Temporal changes in the prevalence of childhood asthma and allergies in urban and rural areas of Cyprus

    Open AccessOurania Kolokotroni, Nicos Middleton et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2011

    The prevalence of allergic diseases in Cyprus is still on the rise; recent increases appear more pronounced among children living in rural areas possibly indicating recent environmental and lifestyle changes in these communities

  • Predictors of Childhood Exposure to Parental Secondhand Smoke in the House and Family Car

    Open AccessVassiliki Mantziou, Constantine Vardavas et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2009

    Childhood exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) is a serious threat to public health and can be influenced by parental lifestyle habits and beliefs. Taking the above into account we aimed at locating predictors of parental induced exposure to SHS in the house and family car among 614 children who visited the emergency department of two large pediatric hospitals in Athens, Greece. The multivariate analysis revealed that the factors found to mediate h…

  • Aims, methods and preliminary findings of the Physical Activity, Nutrition and Allergies in Children Examined in Athens (Panacea) epidemiological study

    Open AccessKostas Ν Priftis, Kostas N Priftis et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2007

    The present cross-sectional study cannot establish causal relationships between asthma and increased body weight of schoolchildren; however, our findings underline the associations between asthma, increased body weight, and physical activity at population level, and urge for actions that should be taken by public health policy makers in order to prevent these conditions among children