Pediatric Asthma Risk Score 1.1.1

The Pediatric Asthma Risk Score (PARS) is a pioneering continuous scoring system designed to forecast asthma risk in young children. This innovative tool, detailed in a study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (JACI) PMID:30554722, represents a significant advancement in asthma prediction. By outperforming the existing Asthma Predictive Index (API) with an 11% boost in sensitivity, PARS offers a reliable method to assess a child's individual risk of developing asthma.

Developed by Gregory Hill at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, PARS simplifies risk assessment by prompting families and clinicians to answer just six straightforward questions related to eczema, wheezing, race, sensitization status, and parental asthma history. This streamlined approach empowers users with valuable insights into a child's likelihood of asthma development.

The study "A Pediatric Asthma Risk Score (PARS) to Better Predict Asthma Development in Young Children" lists esteemed authors such as Jocelyn M Biagini Myers PhD[1,5], Eric Schauberger DO, PhD[1,2], Hua He MS[3], Lisa J Martin PhD[3,5], John Kroner MS[1], Gregory M Hill BS[1], Patrick H. Ryan PhD[4,5], Grace K LeMasters PhD, MSN[6], David I Bernstein MD, MS[6,7], James E Lockey MD[6], S. Hasan Arshad, DM, FRCP[8], Ramesh Kurukulaaratchy, DM[8], and Gurjit K Khurana Hershey MD, PhD[1,5]. These experts are affiliated with various divisions including Asthma Research, Allergy and Immunology, Human Genetics, and Biostatistics and Epidemiology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Ohio, USA; the Department of Pediatrics, Department of Environmental Health and Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; as well as the David Hide Asthma & Allergy Research Centre at St. Mary’s Hospital in Newport, Isle of Wight, UK.