Parental educational level and childhood wheezing and asthma: A prospective cohort study from the Japan Environment and Children's Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The influence of mothers' and fathers' educational levels in separate evaluations of asthma has not been fully investigated. This study aims to examine the associations of the mother's and fathers' educational levels with childhood wheeze and asthma adjusting for crude and pre-and post-natal modifiable risk factors.

Methods

We conducted a prospective cohort study using data from the Japan Environment and Children's Study, which recruited pregnant women from 2011 to 2014. The mother's and father's educational levels were surveyed by a questionnaire during the pregnancy, and childhood wheezing and doctor-diagnosed asthma were estimated using a 3-year questionnaire. Multilevel logistic regression analysis was performed to evaluate the association between the mother's

SUBMITTER: Saijo Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8051798 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature