Canadian Respiratory Journal (Jan 1996)

Socioeconomic Status and Childhood Atopy

  • Kitaw Demissie,
  • Pierre Ernst,
  • Margaret R Becklake

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/1996/695942
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 53 – 57

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: Variation in the prevalence of allergic disorders among socioeconomic groups could be due either to differences in the type of allergens encountered or to actual differences in susceptibility to sensitization to any particular antigen.