Bending the Twig Does the Tree Incline: Lung Function after Lower Respiratory Tract Illness in Infancy.
Bending the Twig Does the Tree Incline: Lung Function after Lower Respiratory Tract Illness in Infancy.
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弯曲树枝会使树倾斜:婴儿期下呼吸道疾病后的肺功能。
DOI:
10.1164/rccm.201611-2325ed
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发表时间:
2017
影响因子:
24.7
通讯作者:
Martinez,FernandoD
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Martinez,FernandoD
Forty years ago, Leeder and coworkers (1) made a seminal observation: having followed almost 500 subjects from birth in western London, they reported that those with episodes of “bronchitis or pneumonia alone, without asthma” had significantly lower peak expiratory flow rates at age 5 years than those without such episodes. The lowest peak flow rates were observed in children whose episodes occurred in the first year of life. In the same cohort, these authors measured crying ventilatory function shortly after birth and at age 1 year, but were unable to find any association between either of these measurements and bronchitis or pneumonia during the first year of life or up to age 5 years (2). Given the limitations of the crying test used, a major issue was left unresolved: were the deficits in peak expiratory flows observed at age 5 years the result of damage caused by the acute respiratory episodes, or did these deficits precede the episodes themselves? Does the bending twig incline the tree (3)? Several longitudinal studies performed during the subsequent four decades have convincingly shown that children who have lower respiratory tract illnesses (LRTIs) during the first years of life have deficits in measures of lung function assessed during the first weeks of life (4–6). These results suggested that the observations by Leeder and coworkers (1) could, at least in part, be explained by alterations in lung or airway growth in utero, which would predispose those affected to both LRTI and persistent lung function impairment. Still, the possibility could not be excluded that severe LRTI could cause airway damage independent of preexisting lung function deficits. Castro-Rodrıguez and coworkers (7) reported that children who had radiologically ascertained pneumonia during the first 3 years of life had lower FEV1 and FEF25–75 at age 11 years than children with no history of LRTI. There was also a trend for the children with a history of pneumonia to have diminished maximal flows at functional residual capacity measured shortly after birth, but infant lung function testing was performed in a small group of participants. Thus, it could not be elucidated whether the deficits in FEV1 and FEF25–75 observed during the school years could be fully explained by preexisting lung function impairment.The results of the Drakenstein Child Health Study published in this issue of the Journal (pp. 212–220) contribute cogent new information that helps to elucidate this conundrum (8). In this thorough study, investigators measured exhaled nitric oxide and assessed parameters obtained from tidal breathing and from multiple breath washouts at 6 weeks and 1 year of age in children raised in a poor community outside Cape Town, South Africa. Detailed ascertainment and clinical evaluation of each LRTI was performed. As expected, they found significant tracking of respiratory rate, tidal volume, and lung clearance index from 6 weeks to 1 year of age, but none of these parameters, when measured at 6 weeks of age, predicted the subsequent development of LRTI. All three, on the contrary, were altered at age 1 year in children who had recurrent LRTI as compared with those who had no LRTI. The data thus
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DOI:
10.1164/arrd.1980.122.5.709
发表时间:
2015-05
期刊:
The American review of respiratory disease
影响因子:
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作者:
B. Burrows;F. Hasan;R. Barbee;M. Halonen;M. Lebowitz
通讯作者:
B. Burrows;F. Hasan;R. Barbee;M. Halonen;M. Lebowitz
DOI:
10.1164/arrd.1980.122.6.813
发表时间:
2015
期刊:
The American review of respiratory disease
影响因子:
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作者:
B. Burrows;L. Taussig
通讯作者:
L. Taussig
DOI:
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发表时间:
1976
期刊:
Bulletin europeen de physiopathologie respiratoire
影响因子:
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作者:
Colley;Holland Ww;Leeder;Corkhill Rt
通讯作者:
Corkhill Rt
DOI:
10.1056/nejmoa1500245
发表时间:
2015-07-30
期刊:
The New England journal of medicine
影响因子:
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作者:
Jain S;Self WH;Wunderink RG;Fakhran S;Balk R;Bramley AM;Reed C;Grijalva CG;Anderson EJ;Courtney DM;Chappell JD;Qi C;Hart EM;Carroll F;Trabue C;Donnelly HK;Williams DJ;Zhu Y;Arnold SR;Ampofo K;Waterer GW;Levine M;Lindstrom S;Winchell JM;Katz JM;Erdman D;Schneider E;Hicks LA;McCullers JA;Pavia AT;Edwards KM;Finelli L;CDC EPIC Study Team
通讯作者:
CDC EPIC Study Team
DOI:
10.1136/jech.30.4.219
发表时间:
1976
期刊:
British Journal of Preventive & Social Medicine
影响因子:
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作者:
S. Leeder;R. Corkhill;M. Wysocki;W. Holland
通讯作者:
W. Holland