Prediction of asthma in early preschool wheezing by electronic nose analysis

Many preschool children present with complaints of wheezing during their first years of life. One third of these children will develop asthma later in childhood[1]. Accurate techniques for the early diagnosis of asthma would provide important prognostic information, and by identifying those at risk for developing asthma, allow for targeted studies on interventions for preventing and early treatment of asthma.