Single and multiple time-point allergic sensitization during childhood and risk of asthma by age 13

Ann Marie Malby Schoos, Ea Jelding-Dannemand, Jakob Stokholm, Klaus Bønnelykke, Hans Bisgaard*, Bo Lund Chawes

*Corresponding author af dette arbejde

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Abstract

Background: The relationship between allergic sensitization during childhood and risk of developing asthma remains unclear. Objective: To analyze single time-point and temporal patterns of sensitization in childhood in relation to asthma at age 13. Methods: Specific IgE (sIgE) level and skin prick test (SPT) toward 22 food allergens and aeroallergens were assessed at 6, 18 months, 4, 6, and 13 years in children from the high-risk Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood2000 (COPSAC2000) mother-child cohort. We analyzed the association between single time-point monosensitization, polysensitization, and quantitative assessment of sensitization, that is, sum of all sIgE levels and SPT wheal sizes, against asthma at age 13. In addition, we analyzed the association between three temporal patterns of sensitization: (a) early-transient, (b) late-onset, and (c) persistent sensitization and asthma. Results: Polysensitization status measured by SPT or sIgE was at all single time-points associated with increased risk of asthma at age 13: OR range, SPT = 3.0-15.7, and sIgE = 2.6-15.7, respectively, whereas monosensitization status was inconsistently associated with asthma. Quantitative assessment of both sIgE and SPT results was associated with asthma at all single time-points: OR range, SPT = 1.3-3.6, and sIgE = 1.1-1.7. Persistent sensitization, but not early-transient or late-onset sensitization was associated with asthma by age 13: OR [95% CI], SPT = 8.9 [2.8-28.23], and sIgE = 2.9 [1.1-7.6], respectively. Conclusion: Sensitization to multiple allergens at single time-points, increasing sIgE levels and SPT wheal sizes, and persistent sensitization during childhood were associated with increased risk of asthma at age 13, suggesting the use of quantitative and repetitive sensitization measurements when assessing risk of developing asthma.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
Sider (fra-til)716-723
Antal sider8
TidsskriftPediatric Allergy and Immunology
Vol/bind30
Udgave nummer7
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 1 nov. 2019
Udgivet eksterntJa

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