title: High risk factors for childhood asthma.
abstract: Comparing school age asthmatic and non-asthmatic children from strongly allergic families, who contracted atopic dermatitis in early infancy, the following findings in the asthmatic boys emerged: a lower standard of education of their mothers, persistence of the infantile eczema beyond the age of two and several psychological factors relating to the child, the mother and maternal grandparents.
mesh_terms: D001249:Asthma / Q000209:etiology*; D002648:Child; D003876:Dermatitis, Atopic / Q000150:complications; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012306:Risk; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors