Academic achievement of adolescents with asthma or atopic disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Over a fifth of children and adolescents suffer with asthma or atopic disease. It is unclear whether asthma impacts academic performance in children and adolescents, and little is known about the association of eczema, food allergy or hayfever and academic performance.

Objective

To examine whether asthma, eczema, food allergy or hayfever impacts on adolescent academic performance and to assess the role of unmeasured confounding.

Methods

This study used the Childhood and Adolescent Twin Study of Sweden cohort born 1992-1998. At age 9-12 years, parents reported on their child's ever or current asthma, eczema, food allergy and hayfever status (n = 10 963). At age 15, linked national patient and medication register information was used to create current and eve

SUBMITTER: Brew BK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6850758 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature