Being born in autumn or winter is associated with asthma and allergic rhinitis in Finland.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Our population-based study has previously shown that being born in winter or spring was associated with adult-onset asthma. The aim was to study if season of birth (SOB) is associated with airway allergy and related diseases: NSAID exacerbated respiratory disease (N-ERD), asthma, allergic rhinitis (AR), nonallergic rhinitis (NAR), chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) and CRS without nasal polyps (CRSsNP) in Finland.

Methods

A randomly sampled retrospective registry-based follow-up data (n = 74,868) of patients visiting Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS) in Finland was used. The birth date, sex, visit date and comorbidities were collected from electronic health record data during visits from 2005 to 2019.

Results

The mean (SD, range

SUBMITTER: Hanninen R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11259556 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature