Atopy in parents of children dying with sudden infant death syndrome.
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- 1 November 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 55 (11) , 876-878
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.55.11.876
Abstract
36 parents of infants who had died suddenly did not differ in frequency of atopic symptoms, immediate skin tests, IgE, IgE antibody, immunoglobulin G, A, and M, or yeast opsonisation, from 36 matched controls, although atopy was common (about half had atopy in both groups.Keywords
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