Early childcare enrollment and childhood wheezing phenotypes

Pediatr Allergy Immunol. 2019 Feb;30(1):122-127. doi: 10.1111/pai.12983. Epub 2018 Dec 9.

Elizabeth Huiwen Tham^{1

2}, Pei Ting Tan³, Evelyn Xiu Ling Loo⁴, Anne Eng Neo Goh⁵, Oon Hoe Teoh⁶, Fabian Yap⁷, Kok Hian Tan⁸, Keith M Godfrey^{9

10}, Hugo Ps Van Bever^{1

2}, Bee Wah Lee², Eric Andrew Finkelstein¹¹, Yap Seng Chong¹², Lynette Pei-Chi Shek^{1

2}

¹ Khoo Teck Puat-National University Children's Medical Institute, National University Health System (NUHS), Singapore, Singapore.
² Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, Singapore.
³ Biostatistics Unit, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS), National University Health System (NUHS), Singapore, Singapore.
⁴ Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore.
⁵ Allergy service, Department of Paediatrics, KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKWCH), Singapore, Singapore.
⁶ Respiratory Service, Department of Paediatrics, KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKWCH), Singapore, Singapore.
⁷ Department of Endocrinology, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
⁸ Department of Maternal Fetal Medicine, KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKWCH), Singapore, Singapore.
⁹ NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.
¹⁰ Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, Southampton, UK.
¹¹ Health Services and Systems Research, Duke NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore.
¹² Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS), National University Health System (NUHS), Singapore, Singapore.

No abstract available

Keywords: Childcare; allergy; asthma; house dust mite; wheezing.

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