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Diverging prevalences and different risk factors for childhood asthma and eczema: a cross-sectional study.
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- The association between children's exposure to pesticides and asthma, wheezing, and lower respiratory tract infections. A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
- Divergent Trends in the Prevalence of Children's Asthma, Rhinitis and Atopic Dermatitis and Environmental Influences in the Urban Setting of Zagreb, Croatia.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Diverging trends of respiratory allergies and eczema in Greek schoolchildren: Six surveys during 1991-2018.Allergy and asthma proceedings · 2022Article
- Prenatal and neonatal factors involved in the development of childhood allergic diseases in Guangzhou primary and middle school students.BMC pediatrics · 2019Article
- Changing characteristics of hospital admissions but not the children admitted-a whole population study between 2000 and 2013.European journal of pediatrics · 2018Article
- Gene-Environment Interactions-What Can These Tell Us about the Relationship between Asthma and Allergy?Frontiers in pediatrics · 2017Review
- The value of pragmatic and observational studies in health care and public health.Pragmatic and observational research · 2017Review
- Predicting and reducing risk of exacerbations in children with asthma in the primary care setting: current perspectives.Pragmatic and observational research · 2016Review
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Abstract
objectiveTo compare the prevalences of and risk factors for asthma, wheeze, hay fever and eczema in primary schoolchildren in Aberdeen in 2014.
designCross-sectional survey.
settingPrimary schools in Aberdeen, North-East Scotland.
participantsChildren in Scottish school years primary 1-7 were handed a questionnaire by their class teacher to be completed by their parents and returned to the researchers by post or online.
main outcome measuresLifetime history of asthma, eczema and hay fever, and recent history of wheeze.
results41 schools agreed to participate (87%). 11,249 questionnaires were distributed and 3935 returned (35%). A parent-reported lifetime history of asthma, eczema and hay fever was present in 14%, 30% and 24% of children, respectively. The odds of lifetime asthma increased with age (OR 1.1 per year, 95% CI 1.1 to 1.2), male sex (OR 1.89, 95% CI 1.4 to 2.3), parental smoking (OR 1.7, 95% CI 1.2 to 2.3) and eczema (OR 6.6, 95% CI 5.2 to 8.4). Prevalence of recent wheeze was also reported to be 14% and was positively associated with male sex, parental smoking and eczema. In contrast, parental eczema was the only identified predictor of childhood eczema risk.
conclusionsThe lifetime prevalence of asthma in primary schoolchildren was 14% in this survey, approximately half the prevalence of eczema. We report diverging prevalences in relation to previous studies in our locality, and different risk factors for asthma and eczema. These findings suggest that asthma and eczema are unlikely to have a common origin.
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