{"id":201485,"date":"2024-12-13T02:17:22","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T08:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/asthma-more-prevalent-among-children-with-a-rare-genetic-disorder-study-finds"},"modified":"2024-12-13T02:17:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T08:17:22","slug":"asthma-more-prevalent-among-children-with-a-rare-genetic-disorder-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/asthma-more-prevalent-among-children-with-a-rare-genetic-disorder-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Asthma more prevalent among children with a rare genetic disorder, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/asthma-more-prevalent-among-children-with-a-rare-genetic-disorder-study-finds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Indiana University School of Medicine researchers have uncovered compelling evidence that children with primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD), a rare genetic disorder affecting airway function, are significantly more likely than children without PCD to have asthma. The findings, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2827617\" target=\"_blank\">published in a <i>JAMA Network Open<\/i> research letter<\/a>, highlight the importance of routine asthma screening for children with PCD and suggest some children with asthma may have undiagnosed PCD.<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 1 in 10,000 to 30,000 people in the United States have PCD. It affects the microscopic, hair-like structures called cilia that line the airways and help clear mucus, leading to an increased risk of serious breathing problems and infections in people with the inherited condition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe connection between PCD and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/asthma\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">asthma<\/a> has not previously received much attention,\u201d said Benjamin Gaston, MD, the Billie Lou Wood Professor of Pediatrics at the IU School of Medicine, who co-led the study. \u201cOur data analysis revealed an undeniable link, showing children with PCD were 22 times more likely to have asthma compared to children without PCD characteristics.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana University School of Medicine researchers have uncovered compelling evidence that children with primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD), a rare genetic disorder affecting airway function, are significantly more likely than children without PCD to have asthma. The findings, recently published in a JAMA Network Open research letter, highlight the importance of routine asthma screening for children [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}