Jocelyn M, et al. - Experts sought to develop a quantitative personalized tool to predict asthma development in young children. They used the data from the Cincinnati Childhood Allergy and Air Pollution Study birth cohort to identify factors that predicted asthma development. In children with mild-to-moderate asthma, the Pediatric Asthma Risk Score (PARS) performed better than the Asthma Predictive Index (API). They noted significance of this as these children are the most common and most difficult to predict and probably most amenable to prevention strategies. Early wheezing, sensitization to 2 or more food allergens and/or aeroallergens, and African American race were included in addition to parental asthma, eczema, and wheezing apart from colds, variables that predicted asthma in the PARS.