AI Can Predict Which Kids With Asthma Face Higher Odds Of Respiratory Infections, Pneumonia

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 that required steroids, an ER visit or hospitalization, researchers said.

The tool could highlight risks in these children as early as age 3, researchers said.