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Decreased lung function precedes severe respiratory syncytial virus infection and post-respiratory syncytial virus wheeze in term infants

Kim Zomer-Kooijker, Cuno S.P.M. Uiterwaal, Anne C. van der Gugten, Berry Wilbrink, Louis J. Bont, Cornelis K. van der Ent
European Respiratory Journal 2014; DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00009314
Kim Zomer-Kooijker
1Dept of Paediatric Pulmonology and Allergology, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Cuno S.P.M. Uiterwaal
2Julius Centre for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Anne C. van der Gugten
1Dept of Paediatric Pulmonology and Allergology, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Berry Wilbrink
3Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Perinatal Screening, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands
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Louis J. Bont
4Dept of Paediatric Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Cornelis K. van der Ent
1Dept of Paediatric Pulmonology and Allergology, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Abstract

It is unknown why respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) causes mild disease in some children and severe disease, requiring hospitalisation, in others. We aimed to assess whether diminished premorbid lung function in healthy term infants predisposes to hospitalisation during RSV bronchiolitis, and to post-RSV wheeze.

In a prospective birth cohort study of unselected term healthy children, neonatal lung function was measured before the age of 2 months (n = 2133). From birth through the first year of life, respiratory symptoms were recorded in a diary, and general practitioner consultations and hospitalisations were documented. In a subgroup (n = 417) repeated nose and throat swabs were collected for PCR to detect RSV infections.

Median neonatal respiratory system compliance (Crs) was significantly lower (41.2 versus 47.4 mL·kPa−1, p = 0.03) and resistance (Rrs) was higher (8.2 versus 6.3 kPa·s·L−1, p = 0.10) in hospitalised RSV patients (n = 18) compared with nonhospitalised RSV-positive infants (n = 84). Every 10 mL·kPa−1 increase in Crs was associated with 55% less post-RSV wheeze (OR 0.56, 95% CI 0.35–0.90), and each kPa·s·L−1 increase in Rrs was associated with 42% more post-RSV wheeze, which was only marginally explained by pre-RSV wheeze or severity of the RSV disease.

This unselected birth cohort study shows for the first time that decreased lung function at birth predisposes to severe RSV disease, and to post-RSV wheeze.

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Impaired neonatal lung function precedes a severe course of RSV infection in unselected children http://ow.ly/xlkcL

  • Received January 13, 2014.
  • Accepted May 22, 2014.
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Kim Zomer-Kooijker, Cuno S.P.M. Uiterwaal, Anne C. van der Gugten, Berry Wilbrink, Louis J. Bont, Cornelis K. van der Ent
European Respiratory Journal Jan 2014, erj00093-2014; DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00009314

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Kim Zomer-Kooijker, Cuno S.P.M. Uiterwaal, Anne C. van der Gugten, Berry Wilbrink, Louis J. Bont, Cornelis K. van der Ent
European Respiratory Journal Jan 2014, erj00093-2014; DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00009314
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