コレマツ セイゴ   KOREMATSU Seigo
  是松 聖悟
   所属   埼玉医科大学  医学部 総合医療センター 小児科(小児科、総合周産期母子医療センター新生児科、小児救命救急センター)
   職種   教授
論文種別 学術雑誌(原著)
言語種別 英語
査読の有無 査読あり
表題 Month of birth and prevalence of atopic dermatitis in schoolchildren: Dry skin in early infancy as a possible etiologic factor
掲載誌名 正式名:Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
ISSNコード:00916749
出版社 Mosby Inc.
巻・号・頁 103(6),1148-1152頁
著者・共著者 Takashi Kusunoki,Kouichi Asai,Masashi Harazaki,Seigo Korematsu,Susumu Hosoi
発行年月 1999
概要 Background: Month of birth has been shown to affect later development of allergic diseases. Objective: We sought to evaluate the relationship between month of birth and the prevalence of atopic dermatitis (AD) in a large-scale general population of schoolchildren and to elucidate the possible mechanism for this relationship. Methods: Questionnaire data on the prevalence of allergic diseases were obtained for 33,725 schoolchildren aged 7 to 15 years. In a separate study the water-holding capacity of 'uninvolved' skin was compared for children with and without AD. Results: We found striking differences in the prevalence of AD according to the month of birth (X2 = 34.9, P&lt .0001). Overall, those born in autumn showed the highest (7.5%), and those born in spring showed the lowest (5.5%), prevalence of AD. There was little or no such tendency for the prevalence of bronchial asthma (X2 = 17.2, P = .103) and allergic rhinitis (X2 = 24, P = .01). We found no statistical variation across birth month in the ratio of AD with no other allergic disease/total AD, indicating that this deviation was observed whatever the allergic predisposition of the subjects. In a separate study a significan
DOI 10.1016/S0091-6749(99)70191-0
PMID 10359898