For participants


With your help, we will be able to answer the questions:

  1. Why do some children with severe early respiratory disease develop asthma and others do not?

  2. What are the genetic risks of severe chest disease?

  3. Does childhood viral chest disease increase the risk of asthma?

  4. Is asthma a predestined disease?

What procedures are expected to take place?

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Study-related visits will include a recruitment visit, annual investigation visits, and respiratory disease surveillance visits. Recruitment visits will take place at CNP (prenatal informed consent and eligibility) as well as at HIMA (consent reaffirmation and sample collection, before mother and child are discharged from the maternity ward) and The rest will be held at CNP. All study-related visits and assessments are summarized in the table.