Table 2.

The prevalence of any allergic disease and the separate allergic manifestations, that is doctor‐diagnosed asthma, rhinitis, eczema and food allergy, seen at school age among children affected by the different early manifestations, that is recurrent wheeze, eczema and food allergy. The corresponding prevalence among those unaffected in infancy is shown in brackets. The associations between the three early manifestations and each outcome at school age were analysed using multivariate logistic regression analysis, adjusting for gender and age. Adjusted odds ratios, aORs, are shown with a 95% confidence interval

	Any allergic disease eight years	aOR (95% CI)
Recurrent wheeze one year	32 (15)	2.4 (1.7–3.4)
Eczema one year	33 (12)	2.8 (2.3–3.4)
Food allergy one year	52 (14)	4.1 (2.9–5.7)

	DD asthma eight years	aOR (95% CI)
Recurrent wheeze one year	25 (4)	6.5 (4.4–9.7)
Eczema one year	10 (4)	1.7 (1.2–2.4)
Food allergy one year	19 (5)	3.7 (2.3–5.8)

	DD rhinitis eight years	aOR (95% CI)
Recurrent wheeze one year	6 (5)	0.9 (0.5–1.7)
Eczema one year	12 (4)	2.7 (1.9–3.7)
Food allergy one year	21 (5)	3.4 (2.2–5.3)

	DD eczema eight years	aOR (95% CI)
Recurrent wheeze one year	8 (8)	0.9 (0.5–1.8)
Eczema one year	19 (5)	3.8 (2.9–5.0)
Food allergy one year	27 (7)	2.9 (2.0–4.3)

	DD food allergy eight years	aOR (95% CI)
Recurrent wheeze one year	4 (3)	1.1 (0.5–2.5)
Eczema one year	8 (2)	2.6 (1.6–4.1)
Food allergy one year	26 (2)	11.9 (7.4–19.1)