Tong Gong|Cecilia Lundholm|Gustaf Rejnö|Carina Mood|Niklas Långström|Catarina Almqvist
Parental Socioeconomic Status, Childhood Asthma and Medication Use – A Population-Based Study
Karolinska Institutet|Karolinska Institutet|Karolinska Institutet|Swedish Institute|Stockholm University|Karolinska Institutet|Karolinska University Hospital|Karolinska Institutet
background little known parental socioeconomic status affects offspring asthma risk general population relation healthcare medication use among diagnosed children methods registerbased cohort study included 211520 children born april 2006 december 2008 followed december 2010 asthma diagnoses retrieved national patient register dispensed asthma medications prescribed drug register parental socioeconomic status income education retrieved statistics sweden associations parental socioeconomic status outcomes estimated cox proportional hazard regression results compared highest parental income level children exposed levels increased risk asthma first year life eg hazard ratio hr 119 95 confidence interval ci 109131 diagnosis hr 117 95 ci 108126 medications lowest quintile risk decreased first year especially among children lowest parental income quintile hr 084 95 ci 077092 diagnosis hr 080 95 ci 074086 medications compared children collegeeducated parents whose parents lower education increased risk childhood asthma regardless age children lowest parental education increased risk inpatient hr 207 95 ci 161265 outpatient hr 132 95 ci 118147 asthma diagnosis among diagnosed children families lower education used fewer controller medications whose parents college graduates conclusions findings indicate agevarying association parental income childhood asthma consistent inverse association regardless age parental education asthma incidence dispensed controller medications inpatient care investigated remedied