Long-term health-related quality-of-life data in subjects with a history of wheezing in early childhood.

Wheezing in early childhood has implications for respiratory morbidity in later life. We evaluated respiratory health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in young adults ages 17-20 years with a history of early childhood wheezing. Between 1992 and 1993, 100 children ages < 24 months were treated in the hospital for a lower respiratory tract infection with wheezing, and we followed up this cohort.