Gender differences in asthma development and remission during transition through puberty: The TRacking Adolescents' Individual Lives Survey (TRAILS) study

A shift in the prevalence of asthma occurs between 11.1 and 16.3 years, which is due to both an increased incidence and decreased remission of asthma in female compared with male subjects. Pubertal stages could not be proved to explain the gender shift in asthma prevalence.