title: Pediatric asthma: how significant it is for the whole life?
abstract: Asthma is most frequent chronic disease in childhood. Childhood asthma frequently persists to adulthood and the available evidence suggests that the severity of childhood asthma predicts the severity of asthma in the adulthood. To prevent long term remodeling of the airways and improve prognosis, early diagnosis and treatment are necessary. More precise markers that would help to detect asthma and predict its prognosis are urgently needed.
authors.affiliation: Prague, Czech Republic. petr.pohunek@lfmotol.cuni.cz
authors.forename: Petr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pohunek
mesh_terms: D001249:Asthma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D002648:Child; D018450:Disease Progression; D005541:Forced Expiratory Volume / Q000502:physiology*; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis; D012720:Severity of Illness Index