Increased food diversity in the first year of life is inversely associated with allergic diseases.

Abstract

C Roduit, R Frei, M Depner; PASTURE study group. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2014;133(4):1056–1064 The investigators sought to test the relationship between food diversity in the first year of life and outcome of allergic diseases. There were a total of 856 children included in this study with data available on allergic diseases up to 6 years of age. They were part of a prospective birth cohort called Protection Against Allergy Study in Rural Environments/EFRIAM in which pregnant women were recruited during the third trimester of pregnancy in 2002–2005 in rural Austria, Finland, France, Germany, and Switzerland. Data were collected by using questionnaires identifying a physician’s diagnosis of asthma or food allergy, as well …