ArticleThorax1995
Maternal asthma, premature birth, and the risk of respiratory morbidity in schoolchildren in Merseyside.
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- Asthma in children in relation to pre-term birth and fetal growth restriction.Maternal and child health journal · 2013Article
- Association between maternal characteristics and neonatal birth weight in a Korean population living in the Seoul metropolitan area, Korea: a birth cohort study (COCOA).Journal of Korean medical science · 2013Article
- Medical home characteristics and asthma control: a prospective, observational cohort study protocol.EGEMS (Washington, DC) · 2013Article
- Population-based study on association between birth weight and risk of asthma: a propensity score approach.Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology · 2013Article
- Parental compliance--an emerging problem in Liverpool community child health surveys 1991-2006.BMC medical research methodology · 2012Article
- Risk of asthma in young adults who were born preterm: a Swedish national cohort study.Pediatrics · 2011Article
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Abstract
backgroundA study was carried out to analyse the impact of maternal asthma on the risk of preterm delivery and the contribution of preterm delivery to the development of childhood asthma.
methodsTwo cross sectional community studies of 1872 children (5-11 years) in 1991 and 3746 children in 1993 were performed. A respiratory health questionnaire was distributed throughout 15 schools in Merseyside and completed by the parents of the children.
resultsAsthmatic mothers were more likely to have a preterm delivery than non-asthmatic mothers (odds ratio (OR) 1.49; 95% CI 1.10 to 2.02). Smoking was a separate risk factor for preterm delivery (OR 1.35; 95% CI 1.10 to 1.65). Asthmatic mothers did not have an increased risk of delivering small, growth retarded babies. Maternal asthma, paternal asthma, and premature birth, in that order, increased the risk of later childhood respiratory morbidity (OR 3.13, 95% CI 2.36 to 4.16; 2.23, 95% CI 1.62 to 3.05; 1.40, 95% CI 1.10 to 1.79). Conversely, babies who were small for gestational age appeared less likely to develop doctor diagnosed asthma or the symptom triad of cough, wheeze, and breathlessness in childhood, although this was not statistically significant (OR 0.63, 95% CI 0.28 to 1.41).
conclusionsMaternal smoking during pregnancy and maternal asthma are independent risk factors associated with preterm delivery. Asthma in mothers predisposes to preterm delivery but not fetal growth retardation. Preterm birth, but not growth retardation, predisposes the child to the development of subsequent asthma.
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