Parental education and lung function of children in the PATY study

Studies of the relationships between low socio-economic status and impaired lung function were conducted mainly in Western European countries and North America. East-West differences remain unexplored. Associations between parental education and lung function were explored using data on 24,010 schoo...

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Published in:European journal of epidemiology 2011-01, Vol.26 (1), p.45-54
Main Authors: Slachtova, Hana, Gehring, Ulrike, Hoek, Gerard, Tomaskova, Hana, Luttmann-Gibson, Heike, Moshammer, Hanns, Paldy, Anna, Pattenden, Sam, Slotova, Katarina, Speizer, Frank, Zlotkowska, Renata, Heinrich, Joachim
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Cardiology
Child
Children
Children & youth
Combined analysis
Cross-Sectional Studies
Datasets
East-West differences
Education
Educational Status
Epidemiology
Europe
General aspects
Health Status Indicators
Heterogeneity
Humans
Infectious Diseases
Lung - physiology
Lung diseases
Lung function
Lungs
Maximal expiratory flow rate
Medical sciences
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Miscellaneous
North America
Oncology
Parent educational background
Parental education
Parents
PATY study
Predisposing factors
Public Health
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
PULMONARY DISEASES
Regression Analysis
Respiratory function
Respiratory Function Tests
Risk factors
School age children
Social Class
Socioeconomic status
Socioeconomics
Vital capacity
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Summary:Studies of the relationships between low socio-economic status and impaired lung function were conducted mainly in Western European countries and North America. East-West differences remain unexplored. Associations between parental education and lung function were explored using data on 24,010 school-children from eight cross-sectional studies conducted in North America, Western and Eastern Europe. Parental education was defined as low and high using country-specific classifications. Country-specific estimates of effects of low parental education on volume and flow parameters were obtained using linear and logistic regression, controlling for early life and other individual risk factors. Meta-regressions were used for assessment of heterogeneity between country-specific estimates. The association between low parental education and lung function was not consistent across the countries, but showed a more pronounced inverse gradient in the Western countries. The most consistent decrease associated with low parental education was found for peak expiratory flow (PEF), ranging from −2.80 to −1.14%, with statistically significant associations in five out of eight countries. The mean odds ratio for low PEF (
ISSN:0393-2990
1573-7284
DOI:10.1007/s10654-010-9513-x