Childhood asthma prevalence: cross-sectional record linkage study comparing parent-reported wheeze with general practitioner-recorded asthma diagnoses from primary care electronic health records in Wales.

Conclusion: Parent-reported wheezing is more prevalent than GP-recorded asthma diagnoses in the preschool years, and this difference diminishes in primary school-aged children. Further research is needed to evaluate the implications of these differences for the characterisation of longitudinal childhood asthma phenotypes from EHRs. PMID: 29333271 [PubMed]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29333271?dopt=Abstract

Source: Respiratory Care - January 17, 2018 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Griffiths LJ, Lyons RA, Bandyopadhyay A, Tingay KS, Walton S, Cortina-Borja M, Akbari A, Bedford H, Dezateux C Tags: BMJ Open Respir Res Source Type: research