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Bronchitis, pneumonia by age 2 can double early death risk as adults
Updated On: 10 March, 2023 09:43 AM IST | London | IANS
The findings challenge the misconception that adult deaths from respiratory diseases are determined only by behaviour in adulthood, such as smoking
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Children who had lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI), such as bronchitis or pneumonia, by the age of two were almost twice as likely to die prematurely in adulthood from respiratory diseases. The study, led by researchers from Imperial College London and published in The Lancet, spans more than 73 years and provides the best evidence to date that early respiratory health has an impact on mortality later in life.
The findings challenge the misconception that adult deaths from respiratory diseases are determined only by behaviour in adulthood, such as smoking. "Current preventative measures for adult respiratory disease mainly focus on adult lifestyle risk factors such as smoking. Linking one in five adult respiratory deaths to common infections many decades earlier in childhood shows the need to target risk well before adulthood," said lead author Dr James Allinson, from the National Heart & Lung Institute at Imperial.
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