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This study aims to clarify such associations in a developed non\u2010W<\/jats:styled-content>estern setting with a different confounding structure.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Methods<\/jats:title>Using Cox regression, we examined the adjusted associations of gestational age and birthweight for gestational age with time to first public hospital admission for asthma, bronchitis, and bronchiolitis (I<\/jats:styled-content>nternational C<\/jats:styled-content>lassification of D<\/jats:styled-content>iseases, N<\/jats:styled-content>inth V<\/jats:styled-content>ersion C<\/jats:styled-content>linical M<\/jats:styled-content>odification 466, 490, and 493) from 9 days to 12 years in a population\u2010representative birth cohort of 8327 C<\/jats:styled-content>hinese children in H<\/jats:styled-content>ong K<\/jats:styled-content>ong, a developed setting with less clear social patterning of prematurity or birthweight. Analyses were adjusted for infant and parental characteristics and socio\u2010economic position.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Results<\/jats:title>Children born late preterm (34 to <37 weeks) had higher risk of hospitalisation for asthma and other wheezing disorders [hazard ratio (HR<\/jats:styled-content>) 1.99, 95% confidence interval (CI<\/jats:styled-content>) 1.48, 2.67] than children born full term (39 to <41 weeks). Early term births (37 to <39 weeks) had HR<\/jats:styled-content> 1.01 (95% CI<\/jats:styled-content> 0.84, 1.22), late term births (41 to <42 weeks) had HR<\/jats:styled-content> 0.77 (95% 0.59, 1.01), and post\u2010term births (\u226542 weeks) had HR<\/jats:styled-content> 0.56 (95% CI<\/jats:styled-content> 0.32, 0.98). Large for gestational age was associated with lower risk of hospitalisation (HR<\/jats:styled-content> 0.76, 95% CI<\/jats:styled-content> 0.57, 0.99).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Conclusion<\/jats:title>The association of preterm birth with childhood wheezing could be biologically mediated. We cannot rule out an association for early term births.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1111\/ppe.12273","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,1,7]],"date-time":"2016-01-07T12:22:38Z","timestamp":1452169358000},"page":"149-159","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":25,"title":["Gestational Age, Birthweight for Gestational Age, and Childhood Hospitalisations for Asthma and Other Wheezing Disorders"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"30","author":[{"given":"June Y. 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