The Calculated Risk of Childhood Asthma From Severe Bronchiolitis

Affiliations

¹ Division of Respiratory Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass; Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
² Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; Division of Allergy and Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass. Electronic address: wanda.phipatanakul@childrens.harvard.edu.

Editorial

Jonathan M Gaffin et al. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2017 Jan-Feb.

. 2017 Jan-Feb;5(1):97-98.

doi: 10.1016/j.jaip.2016.10.015.

¹ Division of Respiratory Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass; Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
² Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; Division of Allergy and Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass. Electronic address: wanda.phipatanakul@childrens.harvard.edu.

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Cohort Study of Severe Bronchiolitis during Infancy and Risk of Asthma by Age 5 Years.
Balekian DS, Linnemann RW, Hasegawa K, Thadhani R, Camargo CA Jr. Balekian DS, et al. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2017 Jan-Feb;5(1):92-96. doi: 10.1016/j.jaip.2016.07.004. Epub 2016 Aug 11. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2017. PMID: 27523277

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