Siauliai Centre
| Phase One | Phase Two | Phase Three | |||
| Centre: | Siauliai, Lithuania ( Northern and Eastern Europe ) | ||||
| Principal Investigator: | Professor Jurgis Bojarskas | ||||
| Age Groups: | 13-14, 6-7 | Timeframe: | |||
| Sampling Frame: | All schools in Siauliai Centre | ||||
Personnel
Personnel
Professor Jurgis Bojarskas
Kaunas Medical University
Clinics of Children's Diseases
Eiveniu 2
Lithuania
Roles:
- Phase Three Principal Investigator for Siauliai
Why our country joined ISAAC
We were late finding out about ongoing ISAAC studies, and so we were late with our Phase One results. Nevertheless, we were very eager to find out about the real situation concerning allergic diseases in Lithuania, especially among children, as being paediatric allergists and pulmonologists we saw the dramatically increasing numbers of allergic children. We selected the three biggest Lithuanian cities (Kaunas, Panevezys, Siauliai) as centres and examined all children from the secondary schools and kindergartens in them. Phase Three results were produced in time, as we already knew about the invitation to take part repeatedly in this survey. We were interested to see the dynamics of the prevalence of allergic diseases, which is why Kaunas centre completed repeat phases of ISAAC.
Impact of ISAAC in our country
Various lecturers (pediatric and adult) and even Health Ministry representatives quote our ISAAC data, when talking about the spreading of allergies in Lithuania. Then we are sitting proud, with our heads raised, as still there are no data about the prevalence of adult allergies in Lithuania. Some data from our Lithuanian ISAAC results were published in the most popular Lithuanian medical journal ‘Medicina’.
