Contents Guest Editors v Preface vi Introduction vii 1. Asthma in children: the road to individual asthma phenotypes 1 Karin C. Lødrup Carlsen and Kai-Håkon Carlsen 2. Infantile and preschool asthma 10 Jose A. Castro-Rodriguez, Carlos E. Rodriguez-Martinez and Adnan Custovic 3. Problematic severe asthma 22 Gunilla Hedlin, Fernando M. de Benedictis and Andrew Bush 4. Asthma at school age and in adolescence 40 Susanne Lau and Ulrich Wahn 5. Physical exercise, training and sports in asthmatic children and 49 adolescents Kai-Håkon Carlsen and Karin C. Lødrup Carlsen 6. Food allergy, asthma and anaphylaxis 59 Sarah Taylor-Black and Julie Wang 7. The burden of paediatric asthma: economic and familiar 71 Francis J. Gilchrist and Warren Lenney 8. Lung development and the role of asthma and allergy 82 Karin C. Lødrup Carlsen and Adnan Custovic 9. Genetics and epigenetics of childhood asthma 97 Monica C. Munthe-Kaas, Brigitte W.M. Willemse and Gerard H. Koppelman 10. The role of viral and bacterial infections on the development 115 and exacerbations of asthma Paraskevi Xepapadaki, Chrysanthi L. Skevaki and Nikolaos G. Papadopoulos 11. Role of allergen exposure on the development of asthma in childhood 128 Susanne Lau Number 56 June 2012
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