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SUBMITTER: McGeachie MJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5032024 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
McGeachie M J MJ Yates K P KP Zhou X X Guo F F Sternberg A L AL Van Natta M L ML Wise R A RA Szefler S J SJ Sharma S S Kho A T AT Cho M H MH Croteau-Chonka D C DC Castaldi P J PJ Jain G G Sanyal A A Zhan Y Y Lajoie B R BR Dekker J J Stamatoyannopoulos J J Covar R A RA Zeiger R S RS Adkinson N F NF Williams P V PV Kelly H W HW Grasemann H H Vonk J M JM Koppelman G H GH Postma D S DS Raby B A BA Houston I I Lu Q Q Fuhlbrigge A L AL Tantisira K G KG Silverman E K EK Tonascia J J Weiss S T ST Strunk R C RC
The New England journal of medicine 20160501 19
<h4>Background</h4>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.<h4>Methods</h4>We classified children with asthma according to four characteristic patterns of lung-function growth and decline on the basis of graphs showing forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1), representing spirometric measurements performed from childhood into adulthood. Ris ...[more]