Risk factors and evolving epidemiology of childhood asthma

Oral Presentation
Chairs: P. J. Helms (Aberdeen, United Kingdom), T. Frischer (Vienna, Austria)

Paracetamol use in late pregnancy and risk of asthma and wheezing in childhood: birth cohort study S. O. Shaheen, R. B. Newson, A. J. Henderson (London, Bristol, United Kingdom)
Maternal diet in pregnancy and risk of atopic disease in childhood: birth cohort study S. Shaheen, R. Newson, J. Henderson, P. Emmett, I. Rogers (London, United Kingdom)
Prenatal exposure to n-6/n-3 fatty acids, trace elements and minerals and risk of atopic disease in childhood: birth cohort study R. Newson, S. Shaheen, J. Henderson, P. Emmett, M. Cooke, D. Horrobin, P. Calder (Stirling, ; , United Kingdom)
TGF-β1 in human milk is inversely related to wheeze in infancy W. Oddy, D. A. Stern, M. Halonen, G. Tebow, I. C. Lohman, A. L. Wright (Tucson, Perth, Australia)
Increased airway responsiveness in early infancy is associated with the onset but not persistence of childhood asthma S. W. Turner, L. J. Palmer, S. Young, M. Cox, S. M. Stick, D. J. Turner, J. Goldblatt, L. I. Landau, P. N. Le Souëf (Perth, Australia)
Trends in asthma, allergic rhinitis and eczema among Swedish conscripts from farming and non-farming environments. A nationwide study over three decades L. Braback, A. Hjern, F. Rasmussen (Sundsvall, Stockholm, Sweden)
The burden of asthma might be shifting towards female predominance in childhood S. F. Thomsen, C. S. Ulrik, V. Backer (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Gender differences for asthma and lower respiratory tract infections do not support the infection hypothesis M. Osman, C. J. Simpson, H. J. Peter (Aberdeen, United Kingdom)