Research in Canada examining eight cohorts of children from 1993 – 2000 and found that there was a marked increase in the number of asthma cases, specifically noted by rates in children less than three years old, and a decrease in the age of those who were diagnosed (Radhakrishnan et al., 2014). One tool that is used to predict childhood asthma is the Asthma Predictive Index (API), which assists in identifying children at high risk of asthma activity later in their lives (Baena-Cagnani & Badellino, 2011). This tool is used in the years prior to years of age (Baena-Cagnani & Badellino, 2011). A positive reading would include “recurrent episodes of wheezing during the previous years in addition to one of the two major criteria (physician -
