Letter to the editorProgressive airflow limitation is a feature of children with severe asthma
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Supported by National Institute of Health grants RO1HL069170 and RO1NR012021 and in part by the Center for Developmental Lung Biology, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and PHS grants UL1 RR025008, KL2 RR025009, and TL1 RR025010 from the Clinical and Translational Science Award Program, National Institutes of Health, National Center for Research Resources.
Disclosure of potential conflict of interest: W. G. Teague receives speaker’s honoraria from Merck and Co and receives research support from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the American Lung Association, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A. Fitzpatrick had declared that she has no conflict of interest.