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ArticleAllergy, asthma, and clinical immunology : official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology2022

Impact of lockdowns on paediatric asthma hospital presentations over three waves of COVID-19 pandemic.

Nusrat Homaira, Nan Hu, Louisa Owens, Mei Chan, Melinda Gray, Philip N Britton, Hiran Selvadurai, Raghu Lingam, Adam Jaffe

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Article in Allergy, asthma, and clinical immunology : official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Nusrat HomairaDiscipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Randwick, Australia. n.homaira@unsw.edu.au.
Nan HuDiscipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Randwick, Australia.
Louisa OwensDiscipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Randwick, Australia.
Mei ChanDiscipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Randwick, Australia.
Melinda GraySydney Children's Hospital, Randwick, Australia.
Philip N BrittonNational Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, Westmead, Australia.
Hiran SelvaduraiThe Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, Australia.
Raghu Lingam *Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Randwick, Australia.
Adam Jaffe *Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Randwick, Australia.
Sydney Children's Hospital · AUUNSW Sydney · AUChildren's Hospital at Westmead · AUUniversity of Sydney · AU

Funding

National Health and Medical Research Council 1145817National Health and Medical Research Council 1158646
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Public health measures to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic have altered health care for chronic conditions. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on paediatric asthma, the most common chronic respiratory cause of childhood hospitalisation, in Australia, remains unknown. In a multicentre study, we examined the impact of three waves of COVID-19 on paediatric asthma in New South Wales Australia. Time series analysis was performed to determine trends in asthma hospital presentations in children aged 2-17 years before (2015-2019) and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2021) using emergency department and hospital admission datasets from two large tertiary paediatric hospitals.In this first report from Australia, we observed a significant decrease in asthma hospital presentations during lockdown periods including April (68.85%), May (69.46%), December (49.00%) of 2020 and August (66.59%) of 2021 compared to pre-pandemic predictions.The decrease in asthma hospital presentations coincided with the lockdown periods during first, second and third waves of the COVID-19 pandemic and was potentially due to reduced transmission of other common respiratory viruses from restricted movement.

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COVID-19LockdownsPaediatric asthma

Identifiers

PMID35710455
PMCPMC9201802
OpenAlexW4283010700

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