Early life risk factors for childhood asthma: evidence from birth cohort studies I

Oral Presentation
Chairs: C. Kuehni (Bern, Switzerland), S. Turner (Aberdeen, United Kingdom)

Fetal crown-rump length at ten weeks gestation is an independent predictor of lung function aged five years S. Turner, D. Campbell, N. Smith, L. Craig, G. McNeill, S. Forbes, P. Harbour, A. Seaton, G. Devereux, P. Helms (Aberdeen, United Kingdom)
Weight-gain in pre-school children and allergic disease: a longitudinal study C. Murray, D. Canoy, I. Buchan, A. Custovic, A. Woodcock (Manchester, United Kingdom)
Maternal anxiety during pregnancy is associated with asthma in their children R. Granell, H. Cookson, J. Henderson (Bristol, United Kingdom)
Breastfeeding and the risk of childhood asthma: a population-based cohort study M. P. Strippoli, B. Spycher, M. Silverman, C. Kuehni (Bern, Switzerland; Leicester, United Kingdom)
Early daycare: more infections and asthma symptoms in infancy, no prevention of (allergic) asthma at 8 years D. Caudri, A. Wijga, J. Smit, B. Brunekreef, J. De Jongste (Rotterdam, Bilthoven, Utrecht, Netherlands)
Cord blood gene expression of ILT3 and ILT4 and its relation to prenatal farm exposure M. Rochat, D. Plabst, M. Ege, J. Steinle, E. von Mutius, R. Lauener, C. Braun-Fahrländer, J. C. Dalphin, D. Vuitton, J. Riedler, J. Pekkanen, G. Büchele, S. Krauss-Etschmann (Munich, Ulm, Germany; Zurich, Basel, Switzerland; Besançon, Fra
Environmental factors in early life and atopy in an urban birth cohort up to age 5 years S. Illi, C. Strunz-Lehner, A. Zutavern, E. von Mutius (Munich, Germany)
Air pollution during pregnancy and lung function in newborns: a birth cohort study P. Latzin, M. Röösli, A. Huss, C. Kuehni, U. Frey (Bern, Switzerland)