In this issue of Breathe, we highlight paediatric respiratory medicine with four reviews on diseases that are common and/or for which there has been an increase in knowledge and an improvement in care during the last decade, with possible long-term consequences. Awareness has markedly grown that respiratory problems at birth, during the neonatal period and/or in early infancy very often have consequences into adult age [1, 2].
The fact that children born prematurely are at …