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Allergy
-Epidemiology Research
The Department has established a research programme on the effect of exposures in utero and in early years of life on later development of allergy and asthma.
The purpose of this programme is, among other things, to study the hygiene hypothesis, and in particular whether vaccinations and infections including the time of these exposures are significant to the development of allergy. The programme includes a number of studies based on data from the Danish National Birth Cohort.
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Other studies take advantage of population-based information on vaccine history in Danish children and on information regarding time of childhood infections and later also vaccinations from school health records dating back to the 1930s. Finally, a number of studies derive from prospective studies among children followed intensively in Guinea-Bissau and Greenland. |
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