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. 2022 Oct;77(10):3141-3144.
doi: 10.1111/all.15403. Epub 2022 Jun 20.

Impact of time-varying confounders on the association between early-life allergy sensitization and the risk of current asthma: A post hoc analysis of a birth cohort

Arthur H Owora  1   2 , Rui Li  1 , Robert S Tepper  3 , Clare D Ramsey  4 , Moira Chan-Yeung  5 , Wade T A Watson  6 , Allan B Becker  2
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Impact of time-varying confounders on the association between early-life allergy sensitization and the risk of current asthma: A post hoc analysis of a birth cohort

Arthur H Owora et al. Allergy. 2022 Oct.
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Keywords: allergy sensitization; childhood asthma; marginal structural models.

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Prevalence of current asthma and allergy sensitization during a 15‐year follow‐up among children in the CAPPS cohort with 95% Confidence Interval Bands (N = 525). (A) Overall Study Sample; (B) Intervention Group; (C) Control Group; (D) Early‐life (1st year) allergy sensitization and current asthma
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