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Editorial
. 2020 Sep;16(3):200169.
doi: 10.1183/20734735.0169-2020.

Asthma attacks in children are always preceded by poor asthma control: myth or maxim?

Heather H De Keyser  1 , Stanley Szefler  1
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Editorial

Asthma attacks in children are always preceded by poor asthma control: myth or maxim?

Heather H De Keyser et al. Breathe (Sheff). 2020 Sep.

Abstract

Some, but not all, asthma exacerbations in children are preceded by poor asthma control https://bit.ly/3muIy6h.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest: H.H. De Keyser reports consulting fees from AstraZeneca and a donation of research devices from Propeller Health outside the submitted work. Conflict of interest: S. Szefler reports acting as a consultant for development and oversight of paediatric studies to meet regulatory requirements for new medications and oversight of a global study of this new medication as well as assistance in manuscript development (approximately $5000 received over past 3 years, funds to his university) for Boehringer-Ingelheim, participation in two Pediatric Asthma Summit meetings to discuss asthma management worldwide (received approximately $4000 for this work) and in two global advisory meetings for drug development including children (received approximately $4000 for this work as well, all funds to his university) for GlaxoSmithKline, assistance in educating investigators regarding severe asthma in children and also for guidance in new product development (approximately $12 000 over the past 3 years, funds to his university) for AstraZeneca, acting as a consultant for new drug development for childhood asthma (approximately $4000 paid to his university in the past year) for Sanofi, acting as a consultant for new drug development for childhood asthma (approximately $2500 paid to his university in the past year) for Regeneron, grant support from Propeller Health, and discussion of research data regarding electronic monitoring of adherence and rescue therapy and potential future research studies (approximately $5000 paid to his university over the past 2 years) with Propeller Health, outside the submitted work.

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Relative importance of index variables for predicting exacerbations during the intervention period. Bar length represents the independent percentage of contribution of the variable in explaining exacerbations. The numbers at the end of each bar represent the independent effect of each variable. Reproduced from [18], with permission from the publisher.
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