Association of early life factors with wheezing phenotypes in preterm-born children compared to term-born children

Kotecha, Sarah, Watkins, W. John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3262-6588, Lowe, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4772-1879, Granell, Raquel, Henderson, A. John and Kotecha, Sailesh 2018. Association of early life factors with wheezing phenotypes in preterm-born children compared to term-born children. European Respiratory Journal 52 (Sup. 6) , OA3306. 10.1183/13993003.congress-2018.OA3306

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Abstract

Introduction: Respiratory symptoms including wheezing are common in preterm-born children but the natural history of wheezing and the influence of early life factors on wheezing phenotypes are unclear. Aims: We identified wheezing phenotypes in preterm-born children and investigated associations with early life factors compared with term-born children. Methods: Machine-learning using reports of wheezing from the Millennium Cohort Study (n=13,356) at 3, 5, 7 and 11 years was used to derive wheezing phenotypes. Logistic regression was used to test associations with early life factors comparing preterm with term-born children. Results: Four wheezing phenotypes were identified: no/infrequent, early, persistent and late, from 1,049 preterm-born children and 12,307 term-born who had recent-wheeze data for three- or four-time points. Recent-wheeze was greater at all time-points in preterm-born than term-born group although not significantly so at 11 years. Preterm-born children were more likely to have early and persistent wheeze. Although similar early life factors were associated with wheeze phenotypes in both preterm and term groups, including antenatal maternal smoking, atopy, male gender, and breast feeding (which was protective), the effects were generally stronger for preterms. Conclusions: Preterm-born children have similar wheeze phenotypes to term-born children but are more likely than term-born children to have early and persistent wheeze. Wheezing was associated with similar early life factors in both term and preterm children but with greater effect sizes in the latter.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Publisher:	European Respiratory Society
ISSN:	0903-1936
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	2 January 2019
Date of Acceptance:	5 November 2018
Last Modified:	19 Nov 2024 13:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/117961

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