{"id":6986,"date":"2024-07-09T19:59:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T00:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6986"},"modified":"2024-07-09T19:59:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T00:59:42","slug":"pandemic-lockdowns-might-have-prevented-wheeze-in-a-generation-of-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/07\/09\/pandemic-lockdowns-might-have-prevented-wheeze-in-a-generation-of-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic Lockdowns Might Have Prevented Wheeze in a Generation of Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/pulmonology\/generalpulmonary\/111014?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2024-07-09&amp;mh=07f73d99b2b546c079b0b5a2312d87b1&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%20Evening%202024-07-09&amp;utm_term=NL_Daily_DHE_dual-gmail-definition\">MedPageToday<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The COVID-19 pandemic had an upside for lockdown babies: substantially less wheezing and bronchiolitis, according to an Italian retrospective cohort study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One or more wheezing episode by age 30 months was observed in 44% fewer babies born while stay-at-home orders were in effect compared with of those born during the same months in 2016 and 2017 (9.4% vs 15%,\u00a0<em>P<\/em>&lt;0.001), reported researchers led by Carlo Giaquinto, MD, of the University of Padua, Italy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wheezing episodes occurred at a rate of 67.6 per 10,000 person-months among the lockdown group and 110.0 per 10,000 person-months in the historical group, according to the research letter published in<a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2024.20792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>\u00a0JAMA Network Open<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bronchiolitis cases, one of the most common reasons for hospitalizations among infants,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/pulmonology\/generalpulmonary\/107059\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dropped drastically during COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns<\/a>\u00a0as well, from 82.4 episodes per 10,000 person-months in the historical cohort to just 6.6 episodes per 10,000 person-months for lockdown babies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/pulmonology\/generalpulmonary\/111014?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2024-07-09&amp;mh=07f73d99b2b546c079b0b5a2312d87b1&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%20Evening%202024-07-09&amp;utm_term=NL_Daily_DHE_dual-gmail-definition\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedPageToday The COVID-19 pandemic had an upside for lockdown babies: substantially less wheezing and bronchiolitis, according to an Italian retrospective cohort study. 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