Patterns of Growth and Decline in Lung Function in Persistent Childhood Asthma

• Main Authors: McGeachie, Michael J., Yates, Katherine P., Zhou, Xiaobo, Guo, Feng, Sternberg, Alice L., Van Natta, Mark L., Wise, Robert A., Szefler, Stanley J., Sharma, Sunita, Kho, Alvin T., Cho, Michael H., Croteau-Chonka, Damien C., Castaldi, Peter J., Jain, Gaurav, Sanyal, Amartya, Zhan, Ye, Lajoie, Bryan R., Dekker, Job, Stamatoyannopoulos, John, Covar, Ronina A., Zeiger, Robert S., Adkinson, N. Franklin, Williams, Paul V., Kelly, H. William, Grasemann, Hartmut, Vonk, Judith M., Koppelman, Gerard H., Postma, Dirkje S., Raby, Benjamin A., Houston, Isaac, Lu, Quan, Fuhlbrigge, Anne L., Tantisira, Kelan G., Silverman, Edwin K., Tonascia, James, Weiss, Scott T., Strunk, Robert C.
• Other Authors: School of Biological Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Medicine; Biological Sciences
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81464; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40804
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

BACKGROUND: Tracking longitudinal measurements of growth and decline in lung function in patients with persistent childhood asthma may reveal links between asthma and subsequent chronic airflow obstruction. METHODS: We classified children with asthma according to four characteristic patterns of lung...