Variability of total serum immunoglobulin E levels from birth to the age of 10 years. A prospective evaluation in a large birth cohort (German Multicenter Allergy Study)

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 619-623

  Nickel, R ^a   Illi, S ^a   Lau, S ^a   Sommerfeld, C ^a   Bergmann, R ^a   Kamin, W ^b   Forster, J ^c   Schuster, A ^d   Niggemann, B ^a   Wahn, U ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^c St Hedwig Hospital   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allergy; Children; Cohort; IgE; Percentile

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ADOLESCENT; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; ATOPY; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GERMANY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; INFANT; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 20044370528     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2005.02237.x     Document Type: Article

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