Imperial College London
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Professor Alina Rodriguez, CPsychol

Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health

Visiting Professor
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 0941a.rodriguez

 
 
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168Medical SchoolSt Mary's Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Patel:2012:10.1136/jech.2011.133777,
author = {Patel, SP and Rodriguez, A and Little, MP and Elliott, P and Pekkanen, J and Hartikainen, A-L and Pouta, A and Laitinen, J and Harju, T and Canoy, D and Jaervelin, M-R},
doi = {10.1136/jech.2011.133777},
journal = {Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health},
pages = {809--814},
title = {Associations between pre-pregnancy obesity and asthma symptoms in adolescents},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech.2011.133777},
volume = {66},
year = {2012}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Background The high prevalence of children's asthma symptoms, worldwide, is unexplained. We examined the relation between maternal pre-pregnancy weight and body mass index (BMI), and asthma symptoms in adolescents.Methods Data from 6945 adolescents born within the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986 were used. Prospective antenatal and birth outcome data, including maternal pre-pregnancy weight and BMI, and asthma symptoms in adolescent offspring at age 15–16years, were employed. Logistic regression analyses were performed to examine the associations between relevant prenatal factors and asthma symptoms during adolescence.Results Current wheeze (within the past year) was reported by 10.6% of adolescents, and physician-diagnosed asthma by 6.0%. High maternal pre-pregnancy BMI was a significant predictor of wheeze in the adolescents (increase per kilogram per square metre unit; 2.7%, 95% CI 0.9 to 4.4 for ever wheeze; 3.5%, 95% CI 1.3 to 5.8 for current wheeze), and adjusting for potential confounders further increased the risk (2.8%, 95% CI 0.5 to 5.1; 4.7%, 95% CI 1.9 to 7.7, respectively). High maternal pre-pregnancy weight, in the top tertile, also significantly increased the odds of current wheeze in the adolescent by 20% (95% CI 4 to 39), and adjusting for potential confounders further increased the risk (OR=1.52, 95% CI 1.19 to 1.95). Results were similar for current asthma. Furthermore, these significant associations were observed only among adolescents without parental history of atopy but not among those with parental history of atopy.Conclusions The association demonstrated here between maternal pre-pregnancy overweight and obesity, and asthma symptoms in adolescents suggests that increase in asthma may be partly related to the rapid rise in obesity in recent years.
AU  - Patel,SP
AU  - Rodriguez,A
AU  - Little,MP
AU  - Elliott,P
AU  - Pekkanen,J
AU  - Hartikainen,A-L
AU  - Pouta,A
AU  - Laitinen,J
AU  - Harju,T
AU  - Canoy,D
AU  - Jaervelin,M-R
DO  - 10.1136/jech.2011.133777
EP  - 814
PY  - 2012///
SN  - 1470-2738
SP  - 809
TI  - Associations between pre-pregnancy obesity and asthma symptoms in adolescents
T2  - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech.2011.133777
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/28712
VL  - 66
ER  -
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