Food allergy (FA) affects 2%-10% of US children and is a growing clinical and public health problem.
Eczema often precedes the development of asthma in a disease course called the 'atopic march'.
Genome-wide association study of asthma with hay fever to identify variants associated with having both diseases.
Immunological homeostasis in the respiratory tract is thought to require balanced interactions between networks of dendritic cell (DC) subsets in lun…
The impact of breast milk feeding on susceptibility to asthma in childhood is highly controversial, due in part to failure of the majority of studies…
Whereas asthma was rare in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the marked increase in its incidence and prevalence since the 1960s points to substantial…
This genome-wide association study (GWAS) utilises data from the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study for 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D)…
The epidemic increase in the prevalence of allergic disease, which first started in the industrialized countries in the 1960s, may have reached a pea…
Using prospective data from the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study, we investigated vitamin D status and predictors of serum 25-hydrox…
There is evidence to suggest an association between prenatal maternal stress and the development of asthma or other atopic diseases in offspring.