BMI percentile is an independent predictor of increase in lung function in children with sickle cell anemia

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Vanderbilt-Meharry Center for Excellence in Sickle Cell Disease, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee.
• ² Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine, University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Benioff Children's Hospital, California.
• ³ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Pulmonary and Allergy, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
• ⁴ Rodeghier Consultants, Chicago, Illinois.
• ⁵ Developmental Neurosciences Unit and Biomedical Research Centre, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom.
• ⁶ Department of Medicine and Neurology, Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
• ⁷ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Pulmonary, Allergy/Immunology and Sleep, University Hospitals-Cleveland Medical Center, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospitals, Cleveland, Ohio.
• ⁸ Respiratory, Critical Care and Anaesthesia, UCL Great Ormond Street, Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom.
• ⁹ Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt-Meharry Center of Excellence in Sickle Cell Disease, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.