Maternal complications in pregnancy and wheezing in early childhood: a pooled analysis of 14 birth cohorts

Background: Evidence on the effect of maternal complications in pregnancy on wheezing in offspring is still insufficient. Methods: A pooled analysis was performed on individual participant data from fourteen European birth cohorts to assess the relationship between several maternal pregnancy complications and wheezing symptoms in the offspring. Exposures of interest included hypertension and preeclampsia, diabetes, as well as pre-pregnancy overweight (body mass index between 25 and 29.9) and obesity (body mass index >= 30) compared with normal weight (body mass index between 18.5 and 24.9). Outcomes included both ever and recurrent wheezing from birth up to 12-24 months of age. Cohort-speci…

Title : Exposure Assessment to Air Pollution of Children Living in the High Risk Area of Milazzo – Valle del Mela (Sicily): a Bayesian Kriging Approach.

Additional file 2: of Severe asthma features in children: a caseâ control online survey

Criteria for inclusion of children with severe asthma and non-severe persistent asthma. (PDF 25Â kb)

Proceedings of the 23rd Paediatric Rheumatology European Society Congress: part one

Additional file 1: of Severe asthma features in children: a caseâ control online survey

Criteria for exclusion of children with severe asthma and non-severe persistent asthma. (PDF 11Â kb)

Changes in parental smoking during pregnancy and risks of adverse birth outcomes and childhood overweight in Europe and North America

Background Fetal smoke exposure is a common and key avoidable risk factor for birth complications and seems to influence later risk of overweight. It is unclear whether this increased risk is also present if mothers smoke during the first trimester only or reduce the number of cigarettes during pregnancy, or when only fathers smoke. We aimed to assess the associations of parental smoking during pregnancy, specifically of quitting or reducing smoking and maternal and paternal smoking combined, with preterm birth, small size for gestational age, and childhood overweight. Methods and findings We performed an individual participant data meta-analysis among 229,158 families from 28 pregnancy/bir…