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[Maternal depression as a severity factor in respiratory hypersensitivity in children]
G de Montis1, M Chaussain, M Granoff
1Hôpital de jour, service de pédiatrie B, Paris, France.
Of 136 children under 13 yr of age with allergic respiratory disease, 91 had an obstructive syndrome, at rest or induced in the laboratory, without relationship to the clinical symptoms described by the families. In the at-rest group, mothers have been more frequently subjected to depression during the child's infancy. This history of maternal depression appears to increase the frequency of the obstructive syndrome at rest in the child, with a relative risk of 2.87.
Of 136 children under 13 yr of age with allergic respiratory disease, 91 had an obstructive syndrome, at rest or induced in the laboratory, without relationship to the clinical symptoms described by the families. In the at-rest group, mothers have been more frequently subjected to depression during the child's infancy. This history of maternal depression appears to increase the frequency of the obstructive syndrome at rest in the child, with a relative risk of 2.87.