Journal article
Evolution of asthma through childhood
Abstract
The greatest incidence of childhood asthma is among males under 5 years, with decreasing numbers of new cases with age. Many young children wheeze, but remission is common especially in non-atopic children without a family history of allergy or asthma, whose wheezing relates more to infections and environmental tobacco smoke exposure. The prognosis of childhood asthma is best established from population studies, in which some two-thirds of …
Authors
Sears MR
Journal
Clinical & Experimental Allergy, Vol. 28, No. s5, pp. 82–89
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
November 1998
DOI
10.1046/j.1365-2222.1998.028s5082.x
ISSN
0954-7894