Shared prenatal impacts among childhood asthma, allergic rhinitis and atopic dermatitis: a population-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Increasing prevalence of childhood allergic diseases including asthma is a global health concern, and we aimed to investigate prenatal risk factors for childhood asthma and to address the potential shared prenatal impacts among childhood asthma, allergic rhinitis (AR) and atopic dermatitis (AD).

Methods

We used two claim databases, including Taiwan Birth Cohort Study (TBCS) and National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD), to identify independent paired mother-child data (mother-child dyads) between 2006 and 2009. The association between prenatal factors and asthma was determined by calculating adjusted odds ratio (aOR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) using conditional logistic regression analysis.

Results

A total of 628,878 mother-child dyads were

SUBMITTER: Lin CH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6724237 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature