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New tool developed by Cincinnati Children's may help predict asthma in kids

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Channel: LOCAL 12 · 2018 · News & Politics

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CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A new tool developed by a team of scientists at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center is being released this week which may help predict asthma in ways not previously possible.

Asthma is a condition where the lungs sort of seize up, making it hard to breathe.

The new tool is a decision chart, that appears to help medical providers and parents pick up signs of the disease often missed by diagnostic tools.

Researchers refer to this tool as PARS, or the Pediatric Asthma Risk Score. They expect that by adding up identifiers. everything from wheezing to allergic rhinitis to food allergies, mild to moderate cases of asthma could be predicted and perhaps prevented.

A study published in the Online Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology found PARS is more accurate at predicting mild to moderate asthma than some previous tools used.

More than 700 infants in Cincinnati and northern Kentucky were used for the study. First, researchers considered whether or not the parents had asthma then followed up with the kids as they grew up in regular intervals.

They used skin testing and other methods and found the kids with asthma by age seven  not only had a parent with it, they were also more likely to have some food allergies, problems such as eczema, wheezing at a young age, have allergic rhinitis and be African-American.

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