SYTTY
FETAL ENVIRONMENT AND EARLY LIFE FACTORS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ASTHMA AND ALLERGY
Project leader: Juha Pekkanen, Head of Unit of Environmental
Epidemiology, National Public Health Institute (KTL), P.O.Box 95, FIN-70701
Kuopio, Finland, tel. +358-17-201 368, e-mail: Juha.Pekkanen@ktl.fi
PUBLICATIONS
(Updated May 14, 2002)
Articles in international scientific journals
Xu B, Järvelin M-R, Pekkanen J. Prenatal factors and occurrence of rhinitis and eczema among offspring. Allergy 1999;54:829-36.
Xu B, Pekkanen J, Järvelin M-R, Olsen P and Hartikainen A-L. Maternal infections in Pregnancy and the Development of Asthma among offspring. Int J Epidemiol 1999;28:723-727.
Xu B, Pekkanen J, Järvelin M-R .Obstetric complications and asthma in childhood. J Asthma 2000;37:589-94.
Xu B, Järvelin M-R, Pekkanen J. Body build and atopy. J Allergy Clin Immunol (brief communication) 2000;105:393-4.
Xu B, Järvelin M-R, Hartikainen A-L, Pekkanen J. Maternal age at menarche and atopy among offspring at the age of 31 years. Thorax 2000;55:691-3.
Pekkanen J, Xu B, Järvelin M-R. Gestatinal age and occurrence of atopy at age 31—a prospective birth cohort study in Finland. Clin Exp Allergy 2001;31:95-102.
Xu B, Pekkanen J, Hartikainen A-L, Järvelin M-R. Caesarean section and risk of asthma and allergy in adulthood (brief communication) J Allergy Clin Immunol 2001;107:732-3.
Xu B, Pekkanen J, Laitinen J, Järvelin M-R. Body build from birth
to adulthood and risk of asthma. Eur J Public Health 2002 (in press).