Contribution of repeated infections in asthma persistence from preschool to school age: Design and characteristics of the PreDicta cohort.

Paraskevi XepapadakiClaus BachertSusetta FinottoTuomas JarttiGeorge N KonstantinouAlexander KieferMarek KowalskiAnna Lewandowska-PolakHeikki LukkarinenEirini RoumpedakiAnna SobanskaIna SintobinTytti VuorinenNan ZhangTheodor ZimmermannNikolaos G Papadopoulos

Published in: Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology (2018)

The PreDicta cohort presented no differences in non-asthma related measures; however, it is well balanced regarding key phenotypic characteristics representative of "preschool asthma".

Keyphrases

chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
lung function
allergic rhinitis
cystic fibrosis
air pollution
cross sectional
drug induced