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A new AI can help detect kids at greater risk for asthma complicationsKids identified by the tool develop pneumonia more than twice as often and the flu nearly three times more oftenThey also have the highest rate of serious asthma attacks

TUESDAY, Sept. 30, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A newly developed AI tool may help predict which kids with asthma are at higher risk for severe complications like respiratory infections and pneumonia, researchers say.

A subgroup of kids identified by the AI tool developed pneumonia more than twice as often as other children with asthma, researchers recently reported in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

They also got the flu nearly three times more often than other asthmatic kids, and had the highest rates of asthma attacks t

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