Childhood asthma prevalence: cross-sectional record linkage study comparing parent-reported wheeze with general practitioner-recorded asthma diagnoses from primary care electronic health records in Wales

Lucy J Griffiths; Ronan A Lyons; Amrita Bandyopadhyay; Karen S Tingay; Suzanne Walton; Mario Cortina-Borja; Ashley Akbari; Helen Bedford; Carol Dezateux

doi:10.1136/bmjresp-2017-000260

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Childhood asthma prevalence: cross-sectional record linkage study comparing parent-reported wheeze with general practitioner-recorded asthma diagnoses from primary care electronic health records in Wales

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Lucy J Griffiths Life Course Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Ronan A Lyons Farr Institute, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Amrita Bandyopadhyay Farr Institute, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Karen S Tingay Farr Institute, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Suzanne Walton Life Course Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Mario Cortina-Borja Clinical Epidemiology, Nutrition and Biostatistics, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Ashley Akbari Farr Institute, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Helen Bedford Life Course Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Carol Dezateux Life Course Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK Centre for Primary Care and Public Health, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University London, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles

Correspondence to Professor Carol Dezateux; c.dezateux{at}ucl.ac.uk

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Griffiths LJ, Lyons RA, Bandyopadhyay A, et al

BMJ Open Respiratory Research 2018;5:e000260. doi: 10.1136/bmjresp-2017-000260

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Received November 2, 2017
Revised December 14, 2017
First published January 8, 2018.

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June 10, 2019

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