The epidemiology of childhood asthma.

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Variability is the hallmark of childhood asthma. Conceptually defined as variable airflow obstruction, asthma affects individual children through a variety of clinical manifestations. Particular controversy surrounds the nature of wheezing in early infancy and its relationship to atopic asthma of later onset. Asthma prognosis is also highly variable and only to a limited extent predictable by clinical indicators...

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