Trajectories of asthma symptom presenting as wheezing and their associations with family environmental factors among children in Australia: evidence from a national birth cohort st... by Peter D Sly, Md Jobayer Chisti, Abdullah Mamun, K M Shahunja

“…Objectives Asthma is one of the greatest health burdens, yet contributors to asthma symptom trajectories are understudied in Australian children. We aimed to assess the trajectories of asthma symptom and their associations with several family environmental factors during the childhood period in Australia.Design Secondary analysis from a cross-sequential cohort study.Setting Nationwide representative data from the ‘Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC)’.Participants Participants from the LSAC birth cohort.Outcome measures Asthma symptom trajectory groups.Methods Asthma symptom presenting as wheezing, family environmental factors and sociodemographic data (2004–2018) were obtained from the LSAC. …”
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