Effect of socioeconomic status on allergic diseases and atopy in school children
Higher family socioeconomic status (SES) has been suggested as a risk factor for allergic diseases. We investigated the effect of SES on the prevalence of allergic diseases and atopy. The study included 13-14-year-old primary school students in Kemalpaşa, Turkey. The International Study of Asthma a...
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Higher family socioeconomic status (SES) has been suggested as a risk factor for allergic diseases. We investigated the effect of SES on the prevalence of allergic diseases and atopy. The study included 13-14-year-old primary school students in Kemalpaşa, Turkey. The International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood phase 1 questionnaire was administered to all students to identify allergic diseases. Those identified as having allergic diseases underwent a skin prick test (SPT). Group I included students with allergic diseases and a positive SPT. Group II comprised students with allergic disease who were SPT negative. The control group was randomly selected from the students with no allergic diseases. Three weighted SES scores were calculated for each student (equally weighted, education-weighted, and social class-weighted). SES was classified as lower, middle, or upper according to the weighted SES scores. Allergic diseases were detected in 657 of the 1,373 children who participated in the study. A higher percentage of children with allergic diseases and atopy were in the lower SES group in all weighted SES analyses compared with controls (Group I: 59%, 83.1%, 67.5%; Group II: 62.9%, 80%, 63.5%; control group: 12.4%, 12.9%, 21.2%). Significantly more children with allergic and atopic diseases (Groups I and II) were in the lower SES group compared with the control group (p < 0.001). In contrast to the hygiene hypothesis, we found the incidence of atopic disease was higher in families with lower SES.
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| spelling | doaj-art-3236a2c83d0c44fcba548f30ad5c4e142025-08-20T03:00:53ZengHacettepe University Institute of Child HealthThe Turkish Journal of Pediatrics0041-43012791-64212017-12-0159610.24953/turkjped.2017.06.008Effect of socioeconomic status on allergic diseases and atopy in school childrenSevgi Sipahi0Hikmet Tekin Nacaroğlu1Demet Can2İlker Günay3Canan Şule Ünsal-Karkıner4Hacer Kamalı5Ahmet Özdemir6Türkan Günay7Department of Pediatric Allergy, Dr. Behcet Uz Children's Hospital, Izmir, Turkey.Department of Pediatric Allergy, Dr. Behcet Uz Children's Hospital, Izmir, Turkey.Department of Pediatric Allergy, Dr. Behcet Uz Children's Hospital, Izmir, Turkey.Department of Pediatric Allergy, Dr. Behcet Uz Children's Hospital, Izmir, Turkey.Department of Pediatric Allergy, Dr. Behcet Uz Children's Hospital, Izmir, Turkey.Department of Pediatric Allergy, Dr. Behcet Uz Children's Hospital, Izmir, Turkey.Department of Pediatric Allergy, Dr. Behcet Uz Children's Hospital, Izmir, Turkey.Department of Public Health, Dokuz Eylul University School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey. Higher family socioeconomic status (SES) has been suggested as a risk factor for allergic diseases. We investigated the effect of SES on the prevalence of allergic diseases and atopy. The study included 13-14-year-old primary school students in Kemalpaşa, Turkey. The International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood phase 1 questionnaire was administered to all students to identify allergic diseases. Those identified as having allergic diseases underwent a skin prick test (SPT). Group I included students with allergic diseases and a positive SPT. Group II comprised students with allergic disease who were SPT negative. The control group was randomly selected from the students with no allergic diseases. Three weighted SES scores were calculated for each student (equally weighted, education-weighted, and social class-weighted). SES was classified as lower, middle, or upper according to the weighted SES scores. Allergic diseases were detected in 657 of the 1,373 children who participated in the study. A higher percentage of children with allergic diseases and atopy were in the lower SES group in all weighted SES analyses compared with controls (Group I: 59%, 83.1%, 67.5%; Group II: 62.9%, 80%, 63.5%; control group: 12.4%, 12.9%, 21.2%). Significantly more children with allergic and atopic diseases (Groups I and II) were in the lower SES group compared with the control group (p < 0.001). In contrast to the hygiene hypothesis, we found the incidence of atopic disease was higher in families with lower SES. https://turkjpediatr.org/article/view/1050ISAACallergic diseasesasthmaatopysocioeconomic status |
| spellingShingle | Sevgi Sipahi Hikmet Tekin Nacaroğlu Demet Can İlker Günay Canan Şule Ünsal-Karkıner Hacer Kamalı Ahmet Özdemir Türkan Günay Effect of socioeconomic status on allergic diseases and atopy in school children The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics ISAAC allergic diseases asthma atopy socioeconomic status |
| title | Effect of socioeconomic status on allergic diseases and atopy in school children |
| title_full | Effect of socioeconomic status on allergic diseases and atopy in school children |
| title_fullStr | Effect of socioeconomic status on allergic diseases and atopy in school children |
| title_full_unstemmed | Effect of socioeconomic status on allergic diseases and atopy in school children |
| title_short | Effect of socioeconomic status on allergic diseases and atopy in school children |
| title_sort | effect of socioeconomic status on allergic diseases and atopy in school children |
| topic | ISAAC allergic diseases asthma atopy socioeconomic status |
| url | https://turkjpediatr.org/article/view/1050 |
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