The burden of severe asthma in childhood and adolescence: results from the paediatric U-BIOPRED cohorts.

Louise Fleming, Clare Murray, Aruna T Bansal, Simone Hashimoto, Hans Bisgaard, Andrew Bush, Urs Frey, Gunilla Hedlin, Florian Singer, Wim M van Aalderen, Nadja H Vissing, Zaraquiza Zolkipli, Anna Selby, Stephen Fowler, Dominick Shaw, Kian Fan Chung, Ana R Sousa, Scott Wagers, Julie Corfield, Ioannis PandisAnthony Rowe, Elena Formaggio, Peter J Sterk, Graham Roberts

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    Abstract

    U-BIOPRED aims to characterise paediatric and adult severe asthma using conventional and innovative systems biology approaches.A total of 99 school-age children with severe asthma and 81 preschoolers with severe wheeze were compared with 49 school-age children with mild/moderate asthma and 53 preschoolers with mild/moderate wheeze in a cross-sectional study.Despite high-dose treatment, the severe cohorts had more severe exacerbations compared with the mild/moderate ones (annual medians: school-aged 3.0 versus 1.1, preschool 3.9 versus 1.8; p
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalThe European respiratory journal
    Volume46
    Issue number5
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Nov 2015

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