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The Natural History of Childhood Asthma Through Adolescence
Author(s) -
WILLIAMS H. E.,
PHELAN P. D.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of paediatrics and child health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.631
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1440-1754
pISSN - 1034-4810
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1754.1977.tb01130.x
Subject(s) - medicine , asthma , wheeze , natural history , pediatrics , population , el niño , environmental health
A follow‐up of the natural history of childhood asthma at 17‐18 years in a randomly selected population of asthmatic and control children who had been studied clinically and physiologically at 7, 10 and 14 years of age, has been conducted by questionnaire. Of the sample still in the study at 14 years of age, 77% of the asthma population replied, representing 65% of the original sample. There had been significant amelioration of asthma in those children who still had asthma at 14 years of age. Of those children with episodic asthma, approximately half had ceased wheezing while the remainder had relatively infrequent episodes. Those children with chronic asthma continued to wheeze but in just over half, asthma appeared to be episodic. Of the children who had ceased wheezing before 14 years of age, 17% had recurrence in the 12 months prior to review. However, in only 1 subject were the episodes of asthma frequent.