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2018, World Allergy Organization JournalCitation Excerpt :It has been noted that internationally adopted children and children of immigrants have higher rates of asthma and other atopic disorders than would be expected in comparable children in their country of origin [4]. Numerous other factors are expected to exert an influence on children’s risk for atopic disorders, such as duration of breastfeeding [5, 6]; parental smoking, especially maternal smoking during pregnancy; sibship size and birth order [7, 8]; parental atopy; daycare attendance [9, 10]; degree of acculturation and adoption of lifestyle changes [11, 12]. Also of relevance are factors related to the built environment (dampness and mould in dwellings) [13–15], and air pollution [16].
Neighborhood poverty, urban residence, race/ethnicity, and asthma: Rethinking the inner-city asthma epidemic
2015, Journal of Allergy and Clinical ImmunologyCitation Excerpt :Many of the risk factors for asthma that are found in poorer households in general might actually be less common among poorer, less acculturated Hispanic households.42 Increased acculturation has been linked to higher prevalence of asthma risk factors, including shorter duration of breast-feeding,43 smoking,44 prematurity,45,46 and poor diet,47 and has been shown to be a risk factor for asthma among Mexican Hispanics.48,49 Although we adjusted for the subject child's birth outside the United States, our analyses did not adjust for the immigration status of the child's parent, and thus acculturation is a potential explanation for the inverse relationship between poverty and asthma we found among Hispanics, although differences in diagnosis and gene-environment interactions might also play a role.
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2009, Journal of Allergy and Clinical ImmunologyCitation Excerpt :In later childhood and adulthood, compared with white ethnicity, black ethnicity is also linked to elevated risk of allergic sensitization and elevated IgE.49 In this cohort, approximately one fifth of participants declared themselves to be Hispanic, but the relation of Hispanic ethnicity to allergy risk varies widely depending on country of birth and duration of time in the United States.50 Ethnic differences in neonatal cytokine responses and in subsequent allergic or respiratory disease expression likely result from a combination of heredity and prenatal and postnatal environmental differences.51,52
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