Effect of the COVID-19 Lockdown on Asthma Biological Rhythms.

ABSTRACT: Asthma has a striking temporal character, in which time-of-day, patient age, and season each influence disease activity. The extent to which rhythms in asthma activity reflect exposure to specific disease triggers remains unclear. In this study, we examined how virus mitigation strategies enacted during the COVID-19 pandemic ("lockdown measures") affected rhythms in asthma clinical activity in children. To this end, we retrospectively analyzed asthma clinical presentations in children aged <18 years to our regional academic medical center, comparing 4 years of medical records prior to COVID-19 lockdown measures with the 12 months immediately after the institution of such measures. We correlated these data to positive viral test results, febrile seizures, and allergic clinical surrogates (a

SUBMITTER: Hazan G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9010369 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature