Investigation into the increase in hay fever and eczema at age 16 observed between the 1958 and 1970 British birth cohorts
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Summary
Changes between cohorts in sex, birth weight, birth order, maternal age, breast feeding, maternal smoking during pregnancy, and father's social class at birth did not seem to explain any of the observed rise in the prevalence of hay fever and eczema among British 16 year olds.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 1997-09-20
- Cited by
- 250
- References
- 21
- Access
- Open access
- OpenAlex
- https://openalex.org/W1990121384
- Semantic Scholar
- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:41737437
Keywords
Hay fever, Medicine, Odds ratio, Pregnancy, Confidence interval
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- Research on health and health behaviours based on the 1970 British Cohort Study
- Epidemiology of allergies in Austria. Results of the first Austrian Allergy Report
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- The Western Australian register of multiple births: a twin-family study of asthma
- Allergic diseases
- Prevalence of asthma, rhinitis, and eczema in the university population of Phitsanulok, Thailand.
- Mizolastine: antihistaminic activity from preclinical data to clinical evaluation
- Allergic rhinitis, rhinoconjunctivitis and hayfever symptoms among children are associated with frequency of truck traffic near residences: a cross sectional study
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- Microorganisms in infancy and development of allergy: comparison of Estonian and Swedish children
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