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

ABSTRACT:

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 respiratory disease and bronchopulmonary dysplasia).

Methods

A national cohort of all infants born in Denmark in the period 1980-2009 was included in this register study. Data on purchase of asthma medication (combination of inhaled β-2 agonists and other drugs for obstructive airway disease) in 2010-2011 were obtained from the Danish National Prescription Registry. Associations between gestational age (GA), neonatal respiratory morbidity and a cross-sectional evaluation of asthma medic

SUBMITTER: Damgaard AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4317188 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature