Platform Leader: Dr. Francine Ducharme

Team members:

Dr Lucie Blais
Dr Marieve Doucet
Dr Anita Kozryrskyi
Dr Jacqueline Quail
François Després (PhD Candidate)

Goals

• To use pharmacoepidemiological data to determine if poor control of airway disease in asthmatic preschoolers leads to increased severity and progression of chronic airway disease in later life
• To determine whether poor control of asthma in pregnant mothers leads to increased severity and progression of chronic airway disease in their offspring.

Publications

Diagnosis, management, and prognosis of preschool wheeze
Ducharme FM, Tse SM, Chauhan B. Diagnosis, management, and prognosis of preschool wheeze. Lancet. 2014 May 3;383(9928):1593-604. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60615-2.