Gene Test Gives Clues to Asthma Persistence (CME/CE)

Genetic risk assessment can provide useful information about whether childhood asthma will remit or persist, but a clinically meaningful test based on identified gene variants is likely many years away, researchers found.

Analysis of data from a four-decade longitudinal study involving almost 1,000 people revealed that those with higher genetic risk scores were more than a third more likely to continue to suffer from asthma as adults than were those with lower scores, based on the 15-variant prediction model (RR 1.36, 95% CI 1.14-1.63).