D McBride, T Keil, L Grabenhenrich, R Dubakiene, G Drasutiene, A Fiocchi, L Dahdah, A B Sprikkelman, A A Schoemaker, G Roberts, K Grimshaw, M L Kowalski, A Stanczyk-Przyluska, S Sigurdardottir, M Clausen, N G Papadopoulos, D Mitsias, L Rosenfeld, M Reche, C Pascual, A Reich, J Hourihane, U Wahn, E N C Mills, A Mackie, K Beyer
It is unclear why some children develop food allergy. The EuroPrevall birth cohort was established to examine regional differences in the prevalence and risk factors of food allergy in European children using gold-standard diagnostic criteria. The aim of this report was to describe pre-, post-natal and environmental characteristics among the participating countries. In nine countries across four major European climatic regions, mothers and their newborns were enrolled from October 2005 through February 2010...
May 2012: Pediatric Allergy and Immunology