Abstract
Based upon an epidemiological follow-up study of 51 infants hospitalized due to bronchiolitis and 24 controls from two health care centres, single factors predisposing to acute bronchiolitis is reported (subm. abstract). We reports infants with bronchiolitis to have recurrent obstructive lung disease in 60 % of cases, and therefore the identification of infants at risk of contracting bronchiolitis is important both as regards the acute illness of infancy and the continuing respiratory illness. Discriminant analysis was therefore carried out in order to characterize infants at risk of contracting acute bronchiolitis.
The discriminant function characterized 47 out of 51 infants with bronchiolitis to be at risk, and 20 of 24 controls not to be at risk of contracting bronchiolitis. By using the leaving out technique 19 controls and 44 infants with bronchiolitis were still correctly classified, and the probability of erroneously classifying a patient increased from about 11 to 16 % by this correction.
Discriminant analysis thus seem to be a valuable tool in characterizing patients at risk of contracting bronchiolitis, and thus at risk of further development of obstructive lung disease.
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Carlsen, K., Larsen, S. & Halvorsen, S. ACUTE BRONCHIOLITIS IN INFANCY. CHARACTERIZATION OF FACTORS PREDISPOSING TO ILLNESS. Pediatr Res 19, 1095 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-198510000-00159
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-198510000-00159
