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SUBMITTER: Checkley W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5345487 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Checkley William W Robinson Colin L CL Baumann Lauren M LM Romero Karina K Combe Juan M JM Gilman Robert H RH Wise Robert A RA Hamilton Robert G RG Gonzalvez Guillermo G Cama Vitaliano V Hansel Nadia N NN
The European respiratory journal 20120726 5
It is unclear if the relationship of total serum IgE with asthma varies with degree of urbanisation. We hypothesised that the relationship of total serum IgE to asthma is more pronounced in an urban versus a rural environment. We enrolled 1441 children aged 13-15 years in a peri-urban shanty town in Lima, Peru (n=725) and 23 villages in rural Tumbes, Peru (n=716). We asked participants about asthma and allergy symptoms, environmental exposures and sociodemographics; and performed spirometry, and ...[more]