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To examine the relationship between biosocial background factors, concurrent health conditions, and the prevalence of childhood asthma.

June 1, 1985Journal of Epidemiology & Community HealthOpen Access

Biosocial factors in the epidemiology of childhood asthma in a British national sample.

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BKBernice A. KaplanWayne State University CMC. G. N. Mascie‐TaylorUniversity of Cambridge

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Population-based study reveals childhood asthma links to biosocial conditions and eczema in a national sample, highlighting the primary role of allergic factors in distinguishing cases.

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To examine the relationship between biosocial background factors, concurrent health conditions, and the prevalence of childhood asthma.
Analyzed epidemiological data from a British national sample of children (N > 14,000).
Applied discriminant analysis to evaluate demographic, parental, socio-environmental, and disease-related variables distinguishing asthmatic from non-asthmatic participants.
Asthma presence correlated with child sex, parental age, parental occupation, housing type, household overcrowding, eczema, and history of infectious diseases.
Discriminant analysis demonstrated that differentiation between asthmatic and non-asthmatic individuals was primarily driven by allergy-related factors (effect sizes and numerical metrics not reported).

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Kaplan et al. (1985) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7145f86ceb2bbd16e01ce6 https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.39.2.152

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Population-based study reveals childhood asthma links to biosocial conditions and eczema in a national sample, highlighting the primary role of allergic factors in distinguishing cases.

Biosocial factors in the epidemiology of childhood asthma in a British national sample.

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Biosocial factors in the epidemiology of childhood asthma in a British national sample.

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