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Childhood asthma in New Zealand
Journal article

Childhood asthma in New Zealand

Abstract

To determine the prevalence and severity of childhood asthma in New Zealand we studied 815 children from a birth cohort by questionnaire, clinical examination and pulmonary physiological measurements at age 9 years. More than 19% of the sample had experienced wheezing in the previous year, and 11% had wheezed in the month before assessment. In all, 220 of 815 children (27.1%) had had wheezing episodes by age 9; in 34 (4.2%) episodes had been of …

Authors

Jones DT; Sears MR; Holdaway MD; Hewitt CJ; Flannery EM; Herbison GP; Silva PA

Journal

Respiratory Medicine, Vol. 81, No. 4, pp. 332–340

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

January 1987

DOI

10.1016/0007-0971(87)90181-1

ISSN

0954-6111