Are oral contraceptive use and pregnancy complications risk factors for atopic disorders among offspring?

Pediatric Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 487-496

  Brooks, Kevin ^a   Samms Vaughan, Maureen ^b   Karmaus, Wilfried ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Asthma; Atopy; Eczema; Hay fever; Oral contraceptives; Pregnancy complications

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COUGHING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECZEMA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAY FEVER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; JAMAICAN PERINATAL MORBIDITY MORTALITY SURVEY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WHEEZING;

ASTHMA; CAUSALITY; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; COUGH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAMAICA; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, SEASONAL; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 11144334132     PISSN: 09056157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3038.2004.00185.x     Document Type: Article

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