Is Infant Immunization a Risk Factor for Childhood Asthma or Allergy?
| Autor: | Richard Beasley, Penny Fitzharris, Trudi Kemp, Ian St. George, David M. Fergusson, Kristin Wickens, Julian Crane, Neil Pearce |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
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Allergy Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Epidemiology Eczema Risk Factors Confidence Intervals Hypersensitivity Odds Ratio medicine Humans Longitudinal Studies Risk factor Child Retrospective Studies Asthma Tetanus business.industry Diphtheria Public health Vaccination Infant Newborn Infant Confounding Factors Epidemiologic medicine.disease Poliomyelitis Cross-Sectional Studies Virus Diseases Child Preschool Female business New Zealand |
| Zdroj: | Epidemiology. 8:678 |
| ISSN: | 1044-3983 |
| Popis: | The Christchurch Health and Development Study comprises 1,265 children born in 1977. The 23 children who received no diphtheria/pertussis/tetanus (DPT) and polio immunizations had no recorded asthma episodes or consultations for asthma or other allergic illness before age 10 years; in the immunized children, 23.1% had asthma episodes, 22.5% asthma consultations, and 30.0% consultations for other allergic illness. Similar differences were observed at ages 5 and 16 years. These findings do not appear to be due to differential use of health services (although this possibility cannot be excluded) or con-founding by ethnicity, socioeconomic status, parental atopy, or parental smoking. |
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