Clinical Study
Predictors of Serum Total IgE in a Random Sample of 7–17 Year Old Children
Table 2
Univariate relationships between different factors and serum total IgE in a sample of children.
| Variable | B coefficient | -value |
| Perinatal factor | | | Birth weight (per 100 g) | 0.103 | .063 | Birth length (per cm) | 0.018 | .125 | Gestation (per week) | 0.000 | .967 | Preterm | −0.002 | .989 | Not breastfed | −0.019 | .908 | Supplementation | 0.001 | .991 | Smoking in pregnancy | 0.066 | .184 | Smoking in home | −0.056 | .382 | Parental predisposition | 0.133 | .013 | Season of birth | | .926 |
| Early life factors | | | Pneumonia | 0.128 | .117 | Antibiotics | −0.006 | .923 | Wheezy bronchitis | 0.319 | .0004 |
| Socioeconomic factors | | | Mother age | −0.004 | .509 | Mother education | 0.096 | .184 | Mother alone | −0.001 | .984 | Mother smoke | −0.107 | .130 | Father age | −0.010 | .110 | Father education | 0.078 | .361 | Father smoke | 0.006 | .941 | Household income | 0.012 | .539 |
| Demographic factors | | | Sex | 0.168 | .008 | Age (per year) | −0.018 | .101 | BMI (per unit) | 0.006 | .532 | Smoking | −0.217 | .062 |
| Clinical and paraclinical factors | | | FEV/FVC | −0.825 | .130 | AHR | 0.413 | .000002 | Asthma | 0.279 | .011 | Hay fever | 0.387 | .000000 | Positive skin prick test | 0.761 | .000000 | Atopisk dermatitis | 0.264 | .0002 |
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