Perinatal characteristics and obstetric complications as risk factors for asthma, allergy and eczema at the age of 6 years

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1135-1140

  Bernsen, R M D ^a   De Jongste, J C ^a   Koes, B W ^a   Aardoom, H A ^b   Van Der Wouden, J C ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Municipal Health Service 'Zuid Holland Zuid'   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Allergy; Asthma; Birth weight; Eczema; Gestational age; Neonatal head circumference

Indexed keywords

ALLERGY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPY; CESAREAN SECTION; ECZEMA; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FORCEPS DELIVERY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INHALATION; LABOR INDUCTION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NETHERLANDS; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; VACUUM EXTRACTION; BIRTH WEIGHT; CEPHALOMETRY; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY; LABOR COMPLICATION; MALE; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ASTHMA; BIRTH WEIGHT; CEPHALOMETRY; CHILD; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ECZEMA; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; LABOR, INDUCED; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33644812269     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: 13652222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2005.2155.x     Document Type: Article

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