Postnatal growth and the heterogeneity of preschool wheeze.
Postnatal growth and the heterogeneity of preschool wheeze.
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产后生长和学龄前喘息的异质性。
DOI:
10.1016/j.jpeds.2014.10.069
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2015
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Martinez,FernandoD
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Voraphani,Nipasiri;Martinez,FernandoD
The prevalence of both obesity and asthma has been increasing in recent decades, giving rise to speculation that they may be causally related. An association of overweight status with the incidence and prevalence of asthma in school age children has been confirmed in several epidemiologic studies. 1–3 Because growth trajectories appear to be established very early in life, 4 there has been a considerable interest in exploring the relationship between such early trajectories and the subsequent development of asthma-like symptoms. It has been proposed that prenatal and postnatal environmental insults during critical periods in early life have the potential to affect subsequent development of the respiratory system, and more specifically, susceptibility to asthma and poor lung function. 5, 6In this issue of The Journal, de Korte-de Boer et al relate postnatal growth rate to wheezing up to 3 years of age among 566 children participating in the LucKi population-based birth cohort. 7 Standard deviation scores (SDS) for weight, height, and BMI at each follow-up age were determined, and relative growth rate for each growth characteristic was calculated over 3 time periods: between 1–7 months, between 7–14 months, and between 2–3 years of age, using the difference between the SDS score at two time points. Occurrence of wheezing was parentally reported at the corresponding ages, namely, 7 months, 14 months, and 3 years. Rates of weight and BMI gain were not associated with concurrent wheezing during early childhood.