Journal article
Cigarette smoking and allergic sensitization: A 32-year population-based cohort study
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Cigarette smoke has immunosuppressant effects, but its effect on allergic sensitization is unclear.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate associations between parental and personal smoking and skin prick tests (SPTs) for atopy in a population-based birth cohort of 1037 participants followed to adulthood.
Authors
Hancox RJ; Welch D; Poulton R; Taylor DR; McLachlan CR; Greene JM; Sears MR
Journal
Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Vol. 121, No. 1, pp. 38–42.e3
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
January 2008
DOI
10.1016/j.jaci.2007.09.052
ISSN
0091-6749