Does eczema in infancy cause hay fever, asthma, or both in childhood? Insights from a novel regression model of sibling data

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 130, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Hopper, John L ^a   Bui, Quang M ^a   Erbas, Bircan ^b   Matheson, Melanie C ^a   Gurrin, Lyle C ^a   Burgess, John A ^a   Lowe, Adrian J ^a   Jenkins, Mark A ^a   Abramson, Michael J ^c   Walters, E Haydn ^d   Giles, Graham G ^a,e   Dharmage, Shyamali C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^e CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Atopic march; causation; childhood asthma; childhood hay fever; familial confounding; infantile eczema; sibling design

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPY; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECZEMA; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; HAY FEVER; HUMAN; INFANT DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SIBLING;

EID: 84869100612     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: 10976825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2012.08.003     Document Type: Article

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