FACTORS IN CHILDHOOD AS PREDICTORS OF ASTHMA IN ADULT LIFE
FACTORS IN CHILDHOOD AS PREDICTORS OF ASTHMA IN ADULT LIFE
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DOI:
10.1136/bmj.309.6947.90
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发表时间:
1994-07-09
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通讯作者:
GILES, GG
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作者:
JENKINS, MA;HOPPER, JL;GILES, GG
Objective-To determine which factors measured in childhood predict asthma in adult life.Design-Prospective study over 25 years of a birth cohort initially studied at the age of 7.Setting-Tasmania, Australia.Subjects-1494 men and women surveyed in 1991-3 when aged 29 to 32 (75% of a random stratified sample from the 1968 Tasmanian asthma survey of children born in 1961 and at school in Tasmania).Main outcome measures-Self reported asthma or wheezy breathing in the previous 12 months (current asthma).Result-Of the subjects with asthma or wheezy breathing by the age of 7, as reported by their parents 25.6% (190/741) reported current asthma as an adult compared with 10.8% (81/753) of subjects without parent reported childhood asthma (P