Z Abid1, S S Oh2, D Hu2, S Sen3, S Huntsman2, C Eng2, H J Farber4, W Rodriguez-Cintron5, J R Rodriguez-Santana6, D Serebrisky7, P C Avila1, S M Thyne8, K-Y A Kim9, L N Borrell10, L K Williams11,12, M A Seibold13, E G Burchard2, R Kumar14,15. 1. Division of Allergy-Immunology, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA. 2. Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. 3. Department of Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. 4. Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pulmonology, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA. 5. Veterans Caribbean Health Care System, San Juan, PR, USA. 6. Centro de Neumologia Pediatrica, CSP, San Juan, PR, USA. 7. Pediatric Pulmonary Division, Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA. 8. Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. 9. Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA. 10. Department of Health Sciences, Lehman College, CUNY, New York, NY, USA. 11. Department of Internal Medicine, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, USA. 12. Center for Health Policy and Health Services Research, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, USA. 13. Center for Genes, Environment and Health, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO, USA. 14. Division of Allergy-Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA. rkumar@luriechildrens.org. 15. The Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. rkumar@luriechildrens.org.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Younger maternal age at birth is associated with increased risk of asthma in offspring in European descent populations, but has not been studied in Latino populations. OBJECTIVES: We sought to examine the relationship between maternal age at birth and prevalence of asthma in a nationwide study of Latino children. METHODS: We included 3473 Latino children aged 8-21 years (1696 subjects with physician-diagnosed asthma and 1777 healthy controls) from five US centres and Puerto Rico recruited from July 2008 through November 2011. We used multiple logistic regression models to examine the effect of maternal age at birth on asthma in offspring overall and in analyses stratified by ethnic subgroup (Mexican American, Puerto Rican and other Latino). Secondary analyses evaluated the effects of siblings, acculturation and income on this relationship. RESULTS: Maternal age < 20 years was significantly associated with decreased odds of asthma in offspring, independent of other risk factors (OR = 0.73, 95% CI: 0.57-0.93). In subgroup analyses, the protective effect of younger maternal age was observed only in Mexican Americans (OR = 0.53, 95% CI: 0.36, 0.79). In Puerto Ricans, older maternal age was associated with decreased odds of asthma (OR = 0.65, 95% CI: 0.44-0.97). In further stratified models, the protective effect of younger maternal age in Mexican Americans was seen only in children without older siblings (OR = 0.44, 95% CI: 0.23-0.81). CONCLUSION AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE: In contrast to European descent populations, younger maternal age was associated with decreased odds of asthma in offspring in Mexican American women. Asthma is common in urban minority populations but the factors underlying the varying prevalence among different Latino ethnicities in the United States is not well understood. Maternal age represents one factor that may help to explain this variability.
BACKGROUND: Younger maternal age at birth is associated with increased risk of asthma in offspring in European descent populations, but has not been studied in Latino populations. OBJECTIVES: We sought to examine the relationship between maternal age at birth and prevalence of asthma in a nationwide study of Latino children. METHODS: We included 3473 Latino children aged 8-21 years (1696 subjects with physician-diagnosed asthma and 1777 healthy controls) from five US centres and Puerto Rico recruited from July 2008 through November 2011. We used multiple logistic regression models to examine the effect of maternal age at birth on asthma in offspring overall and in analyses stratified by ethnic subgroup (Mexican American, Puerto Rican and other Latino). Secondary analyses evaluated the effects of siblings, acculturation and income on this relationship. RESULTS: Maternal age < 20 years was significantly associated with decreased odds of asthma in offspring, independent of other risk factors (OR = 0.73, 95% CI: 0.57-0.93). In subgroup analyses, the protective effect of younger maternal age was observed only in Mexican Americans (OR = 0.53, 95% CI: 0.36, 0.79). In Puerto Ricans, older maternal age was associated with decreased odds of asthma (OR = 0.65, 95% CI: 0.44-0.97). In further stratified models, the protective effect of younger maternal age in Mexican Americans was seen only in children without older siblings (OR = 0.44, 95% CI: 0.23-0.81). CONCLUSION AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE: In contrast to European descent populations, younger maternal age was associated with decreased odds of asthma in offspring in Mexican American women. Asthma is common in urban minority populations but the factors underlying the varying prevalence among different Latino ethnicities in the United States is not well understood. Maternal age represents one factor that may help to explain this variability.
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