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Table 5 Cockroach Antigen-Induced PBMC Proliferation and Asthma, Eczema at Age 5 Years

From: Cord blood versus age 5 mononuclear cell proliferation on IgE and asthma

 

Outcomes

Predictors

Asthma 1

[n = 99]

OR (95% CI)

Eczema 2

[n = 93]

OR (95% CI)

Positive cockroach-induced PBMC proliferation

3.08 (1.13, 8.37)

2.09 (0.76, 5.75)

Female sex

0.35 (0.13, 0.92)

1.26 (0.47, 3.37)

African American ethnicity

(Reference = Dominican)

2.13 (0.81, 5.63)

1.28 (0.48, 3.40)

Age 5 ETS exposed

1.36 (0.51, 3.61)

1.93 (0.69, 5.40)

Maternal history of asthma

3.97 (1.43, 11.02)

3.48 (1.27, 9.56)

Prenatal cockroach allergen in bed (μg/g dust)

0.89 (0.62, 1.27)

0.99 (0.70, 1.39)

  1. Results were based on multivariate logistic regression models. Maternal asthma was defined as positive at either prenatal or 3-months postnatal time points. Cockroach prenatal allergen levels (μg/g of dust) are expressed as natural log-transformed values. 1BRQ, 2ISAAC Eczema Module
  2. BRQ, Brief Respiratory Questionnaire.
  3. ISAAC, International Study of Asthma and Allergy in Childhood.
  4. ETS, environmental tobacco smoke
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Clinical and Molecular Allergy

ISSN: 1476-7961

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