Secular trends in the prevalence of childhood asthma and allergy between 1991 and 2013 in Greece: Towards an asthma-allergy dissociation?

Conclusions: The prevalence of childhood asthma decreased between 2008 and 2013 in the city of Patras, Greece. Although the prevalence of allergic disorders continued to rise during the same period, the contribution of allergy and the risk of asthma among allergic children decreased.

Source: European Respiratory Journal - December 23, 2014 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Fouzas, S., Lampropoulos, P., Zantopoulos, G.-Z., Lagiou, O., Triga, M., Priftis, K. N., Anthracopoulos, M. B. Tags: 7.2 Paediatric Asthma and Allergy Source Type: research