Allergy and atopy from infancy to adulthood: Messages from the German birth cohort MAS,

Allergic diseases in early and late childhood have become a common health problem across the globe as documented by the first cross-sectional phase of the International Study on Asthma and Allergies in Childhood [ISAAC] in the mid-1990s.1,2 In many industrialized and developing countries the prevalence of asthma, allergic rhinitis and eczema has increased since then or remained at a high plateau as shown by another global ISAAC assessment a decade later.3
Source: Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology - Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Tags: Review Articles Source Type: research