US Childhood Asthma Incidence Rate Patterns From the ECHO Consortium to Identify High-risk Groups for Primary Prevention.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Asthma is the leading chronic illness in US children, but most descriptive epidemiological data are focused on prevalence.

Objective

To evaluate childhood asthma incidence rates across the nation by core demographic strata and parental history of asthma.

Design, setting, and participants

For this cohort study, a distributed meta-analysis was conducted within the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) consortium for data collected from May 1, 1980, through March 31, 2018. Birth cohort data of children from 34 gestational weeks of age or older to 18 years of age from 31 cohorts in the ECHO consortium were included. Data were analyzed from June 14, 2018, to February 18, 2020.

Exposures

Caregiver report of physician-diagnosed asthma wit

SUBMITTER: Johnson CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8129904 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature