Early childhood infectious diseases and the development of asthma up to school age: a birth cohort study

S Illi, E von Mutius, S Lau, R Bergmann, B Niggemann… - Bmj, 2001 - bmj.com
… A German birth cohort recruited to the longitudinal multicentre allergy study (MAS) … between
different types of early childhood infections and the subsequent development of asthma. …

Body mass index and risk of infections among women in the Danish National Birth Cohort

MC Harpsøe, NM Nielsen, N Friis-Møller… - American journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
infection in a prospective cohort study. We linked 75,001 women enrolled in the Danish
National Birth Cohort … of confounders, to data on infectious diseases and use of antimicrobial …

Infection and antibiotic use in infancy and risk of childhood obesity: a longitudinal birth cohort study

DK Li, H Chen, J Ferber, R Odouli - The lancet Diabetes & …, 2017 - thelancet.com
… population to birth cohorts after 2005 in a sensitivity analysis. The results were similar: adjusted
ORs were 1·24 (1·18–1·31) for untreated infection and 1·02 (0·97–1·07) for antibiotic use. …

Birth cohort studies assessing norovirus infection and immunity in young children: a review

JL Cannon, BA Lopman, DC Payne… - Clinical Infectious …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
… of birth cohort studies describing norovirus prevalence, protection from subsequent illness
after infection, and determinants associated with the risk … As birth cohort studies can help to fill …

Insights into allergic risk factors from birth cohort studies

L Hossenbaccus, S Linton, R Ramchandani… - Annals of Allergy …, 2021 - Elsevier
… Exposure to antibiotics during early life may be associated with increased asthma risk,
whereas viral infections may lead to disease protection, though the impact of the coronavirus …

Lessons learned from birth cohort studies conducted in diverse environments

DJ Jackson, JE Gern, RF Lemanske Jr - Journal of Allergy and Clinical …, 2017 - Elsevier
Birth cohort studies have provided valuable insight into asthma risk factors and the natural
… with virus and bacterial infections have been identified as pivotal risk factors for asthma …

Down syndrome: a novel risk factor for respiratory syncytial virus bronchiolitis—a prospective birth-cohort study

BLP Bloemers, AM Van Furth, ME Weijerman… - …, 2007 - publications.aap.org
… Although pediatricians are keenly aware of the high risk of infections among individuals
with DS, 10,12 to our knowledge this is the first report of an increased incidence of RSV LRTI–…

Risk factors for admission to hospital with laboratory-confirmed influenza in young children: birth cohort study

P Hardelid, M Verfuerden… - European Respiratory …, 2017 - Eur Respiratory Soc
We determined risk factors for influenza hospital admission in children aged <2 years to
guide the design of paediatric vaccination programmes. We linked all singleton live births in …

Early exposure to infections and antibiotics and the incidence of allergic disease: a birth cohort study with the West Midlands General Practice Research Database

TM McKeever, SA Lewis, C Smith, J Collins… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2002 - Elsevier
Cohort This study makes use of data from a birth cohort of children identified historically …
.22, 23 The methods that we used to establish our cohort of children and to establish their family …

The natural history of respiratory syncytial virus in a birth cohort: the influence of age and previous infection on reinfection and disease

EO Ohuma, EA Okiro, R Ochola… - American journal of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
… Schema representing criteria for defining a serologic change that forms the basis of
serologically determined infections of a birth cohort of 635 children in Kilifi, Kenya, monitored over …