A team of researchers associated with the CHILD Cohort Study (CHILD) have created an accessible revolutionary symptom-based screening tool to determine the risk of asthma in kids as early as two years old.

The efficacy of the tool known as the Childhood Asthma Risk Tool, or CHART was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). In the study, CHART was used to analyze data from 2,354 children who participated in CHILD, a long-term study that began following about 3,500 Canadian childrens physical, social, and cognitive development from conception.

CHART was able to predict which of these children will have a persistent wheeze by the age of five, a crucial sign of asthma. The performance of CHART was compared to data from two more cohort studies to confirm the studys conclusions utilizing the CHILD data.

This is the first study that, according to the experts, has created a non-invasive technique for the early diagnosis of asthma and persistent wheezing in a general population and that has now been validated in general and high-risk populations.

(Source: https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/health/new-symptom-based-screening-technique-for-detecting-asthma-risk-in-children-439012)