Prematurity and prescription asthma medication from childhood to young adulthood: a Danish national cohort study.

INTRODUCTION:Preterm birth is associated with increased risk of asthma-like symptoms and purchase of prescription asthma medication in childhood. We investigated whether this association persists into adulthood and whether it is affected by accounting for neonatal respiratory morbidity (acute respir...

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Main Authors: Anne Louise Damgaard, Bo Mølholm Hansen, René Mathiasen, Frederik Buchvald, Theis Lange, Gorm Greisen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4317188?pdf=render