Table 2.
Antibiotic exposure and the risk of ages of asthma development in children with atopic dermatitis.
| Case group | Control group | Adjusted modela | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N (exposure/total) | % | N (exposure/total) | % | aOR | (95%CI) | P-value | |
| Over all | 1236/1251 | 98.8 | 3599/3753 | 95.9 | 3.68 | 2.13–6.36 | < 0.0001 |
| < 5 years | 788/800 | 98.5 | 2265/2400 | 94.4 | 4.14 | 2.24–7.64 | < 0.0001 |
| > 5 years | 448/451 | 99.3 | 1334/1353 | 98.7 | 2.12 | 0.62–7.24 | 0.2303 |
aOR: adjusted odds ratios; CI: confidence intervals.
P values < 0.05 were statistically significant.
aConditional logistic regression models were used and adjusted gender, age group, residential area, and comorbidities covariates listed in the Table 1.