Wheeze Among Children Born During COVID-19 Lockdown

Elisa Barbieri; Anna Cantarutti; Riccardo Boracchini; Luca Bonadies; Daniele Donà; Carlo Giaquinto; Eugenio Baraldi

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.20792

Wheeze Among Children Born During COVID-19 Lockdown

JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Jul 1;7(7):e2420792. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.20792.

Authors

Elisa Barbieri¹, Anna Cantarutti², Riccardo Boracchini², Luca Bonadies³, Daniele Donà¹, Carlo Giaquinto¹, Eugenio Baraldi^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Women's and Children's Health, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
² Unit of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Public Health, Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
³ Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Institute of Pediatric Research, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
⁴ ReSViNET Foundation, Zeist, the Netherlands.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cohort study evaluates the association between the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown and rates of wheezing and use of respiratory medications among children in Italy.

MeSH terms

COVID-19* / epidemiology
COVID-19* / prevention & control
Child
Child, Preschool
Female
Humans
Infant
Male
Pandemics
Quarantine
Respiratory Sounds* / etiology
SARS-CoV-2*