Early-Life Origins of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease | New England Journal of Medicine
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Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a ubiquitous pathogen that infects everyone
worldwide early in life and is a leading cause of severe lower respiratory tract disease in the …

Continuing Medical Education examination The Tucson Children's Respiratory Study
(TCRS), begun in 1980, has followed 1246 subjects from birth together with their family …

BACKGROUND: Diminished lung function and increased prevalence of asthma have been
reported in children with a history of early lower respiratory illnesses (LRIs), including …

Segmentation of children with asthma and other wheezy disorders remains the main
research challenge today, as it was when described 2 centuries ago. Early childhood …

Early-life experiences and environmental exposures have been associated with childhood
asthma. To investigate further whether the timing of such experiences and exposures is …

Although asthma is probably a heterogeneous disease or syndrome, three factors and/or
events consistently emerge for their ability to significantly influence asthma inception in the …

Although asthma affects nearly 8% of the adult population, most of these patients have mild-
to-moderate disease that can be controlled with appropriate treatment. It is estimated …

Rationale: Approximately 2.8 billion people are exposed daily to household air pollution
from polluting cookstoves. The effects of prenatal household air pollution on lung …

Background: Non-cystic fibrosis (CF) bronchiectasis has previously been reported to be rare
and progressive in children living in western societies. Method: A clinical and radiological …