Temporal stability of multitrigger and episodic viral wheeze in early childhood.

Spycher, Ben D; Cochrane, Cara; Granell, Raquel; Sterne, Jonathan A C; Silverman, Michael; Pedersen, Eva; Gaillard, Erol A; Henderson, John; Kühni, Claudia E (2017). Temporal stability of multitrigger and episodic viral wheeze in early childhood. European respiratory journal, 50(5), p. 1700014. European Respiratory Society 10.1183/13993003.00014-2017

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The distinction between episodic viral wheeze (EVW) and multitrigger wheeze (MTW) is used to guide management of preschool wheeze. It has been questioned whether these phenotypes are stable over time. We examined the temporal stability of MTW and EVW in two large population-based cohorts.We classified children from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (n=10 970) and the Leicester Respiratory Cohorts ((LRCs), n=3263) into EVW, MTW and no wheeze at ages 2, 4 and 6 years based on parent-reported symptoms. Using multinomial regression, we estimated relative risk ratios for EVW and MTW at follow-up (no wheeze as reference category) with and without adjusting for wheeze severity.Although large proportions of children with EVW and MTW became asymptomatic, those that continued to wheeze showed a tendency to remain in the same phenotype: among children with MTW at 4 years in the LRCs, the adjusted relative risk ratio was 15.6 (95% CI 8.3-29.2) for MTW (stable phenotype) compared to 7.0 (95% CI 2.6-18.9) for EVW (phenotype switching) at 6 years. The tendency to persist was weaker for EVW and from 2-4 years. Results were similar across cohorts.This suggests that MTW, and to a lesser extent EVW, tend to persist regardless of wheeze severity.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Gynaecology, Paediatrics and Endocrinology (DFKE) > Clinic of Paediatric Medicine
04 Faculty of Medicine > Pre-clinic Human Medicine > Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM)

Graduate School:

Graduate School for Health Sciences (GHS)

UniBE Contributor:

Spycher, Ben, Pedersen, Eva Sophie Lunde, Kühni, Claudia

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 360 Social problems & social services

ISSN:

0903-1936

Publisher:

European Respiratory Society

Language:

English

Submitter:

Anette van Dorland

Date Deposited:

08 Jan 2018 15:38

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:08

Publisher DOI:

10.1183/13993003.00014-2017

PubMed ID:

29097430

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.106906

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/106906

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