ArticleAllergy and asthma proceedings
Risk of herpes zoster in children with asthma.
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- Risk factors for herpes zoster infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis unveiling common trends and heterogeneity patterns.Infection · 2024Pooled it
- Recurrent Infections in Allergic Pediatric Patients: An Immune System Problem? A Narrative Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Association of asthma and herpes zoster, the role of vaccination: A literature review.Immunity, inflammation and disease · 2022Review
- Asthma increases the risk of herpes zoster: a nested case-control study using a national sample cohort.Allergy, asthma, and clinical immunology : official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2020Article
- Usefulness of asthma predictive index in ascertaining asthma status of children using medical records: An explorative study.Allergy · 2018Article
- Automated chart review utilizing natural language processing algorithm for asthma predictive index.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2018Article
- Heterogeneity of asthma and the risk of celiac disease in children.Allergy and asthma proceedings · 2018Article
- Application of a Natural Language Processing Algorithm to Asthma Ascertainment. An Automated Chart Review.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2017Article
- Asthma and the Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis: An Insight into the Heterogeneity and Phenotypes of Asthma.Tuberculosis and respiratory diseases · 2017Review
- Asthma and risk of breakthrough varicella infection in children.Allergy and asthma proceedings · 2016Article
- The use of inhaled corticosteroids in pediatric asthma: update.The World Allergy Organization journal · 2016Review
- Children at risk: Conditions which can increase the occurrence of allergic disease.Allergy and asthma proceedingsArticle
- Natural Language Processing for Asthma Ascertainment in Different Practice Settings.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practiceArticle
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Abstract
backgroundThere is literature that indicates the association of asthma with an increased risk of common and serious microbial infections. We recently reported an increased risk of vaccine-preventable diseases, e.g., herpes zoster (HZ) among children with asthma, defined by predetermined asthma criteria. Little is known about whether this association is persistent if the asthma status is defined by different asthma criteria, e.g., the Asthma Predictive Index, given the heterogeneity of asthma.
objectiveTo assess the consistency of the association between asthma and the risk of HZ in children.
methodsThis is a population-based case-control study based on all pediatric patients with HZ between 1996 and 2001 in Olmsted County, Minnesota, and 1:1 age- and sex-matched controls without a history of HZ who were enrolled in our previous study. The original Asthma Predictive Index criteria was operationalized by two or more wheezing episodes in a year for the first 3 years of life plus one of the major (physician-diagnosed asthma for a parent or physician-diagnosed eczema for a patient) or two of the minor criteria (physician-diagnosed allergic rhinitis for a patient, wheezing apart from cold, or eosinophilia [≥4%]). Data were fit to traditional logistic regression models to calculate odds ratios and 95% confident intervals.
resultsOf the original cohort (n = 554), 95 (17%) did not meet the enrollment criteria for this study, which left 459. Of the 221 patients, 53% were female, with a mean (standard deviation) age of 9.7 ± 4.2 years. The risk of HZ was increased in children with asthma defined by the API controlling for a varicella vaccine history and atopic status (adjusted odds ratio 2.56 [95% confidence interval, 1.08-6.56]).
conclusionsThe association between asthma and increased risk of HZ in children and adolescents is consistent, independent of asthma definitions. Asthma might be an important clinical condition to be considered in HZ vaccine studies.
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