Asthma, hay fever, and food allergy are associated with caregiver-reported speech disorders in US children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Children with asthma, hay fever, and food allergy may have several factors that increase their risk of speech disorder, including allergic inflammation, ADD/ADHD, and sleep disturbance. However, few studies have examined a relationship between asthma, allergic disease, and speech disorder. We sought to determine whether asthma, hay fever, and food allergy are associated with speech disorder in children and whether disease severity, sleep disturbance, or ADD/ADHD modified such associations.

Methods

We analyzed cross-sectional data on 337,285 children aged 2-17 years from 19 US population-based studies, including the 1997-2013 National Health Interview Survey and the 2003/4 and 2007/8 National Survey of Children's Health.

Results

In multivariate models, contr

SUBMITTER: Strom MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5216174 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature