PRIMARY AND SECONDARY MAXIMUM OF THE NUMBER OF ASTHMA ATTACKS ON THE TERRITORY OF THE CITY OF BITOLA-MACEDONIA

An annual distribution of the number of asthma attacks for a period of 10 years is shown in this work.The following results were obtained through statistic processing and graphic interpretation of the number of cases of attacks in the Medical center in Bitola and their integration with meteorological data from the Hidrometeorological institute of Macedonia for the same period as well as data on the percentage on the ground of certain forest families around the city received from the Forest Economy. A primary maximum has been registered of asthma attacks in the wintr months which appers as a consequence of increased humidity of air, the low temperatures and the frequent temperature inversion whish contribute to the pollen of pine and molika,which are most frequent and take up an area of 6582 ha, northwest of the city. In the months of May and June during the blossoming of the pine,and in the days of north-western wind when this pollen is the most present in the air,frequent attacks have not been registered.Because of this we firmly state that the pollen from pine and molika do not have an ethiological influence upon these patients.