Maternal iron supplementation in pregnancy and asthma in the offspring: follow-up of a randomised trial in Finland
- Seif O. Shaheen1⇑,
- Mika Gissler2,3,
- Graham Devereux4,
- Maijaliisa Erkkola5,
- Tarja I. Kinnunen6,
- Harry Mcardle7,
- Aziz Sheikh8,
- Elina Hemminki2 and
- Bright I. Nwaru6,8,9,10
- 1Institute of Population Health Sciences, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- 2Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- 3Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
- 4Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
- 5Department of Food and Nutrition, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- 6Unit of Health Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
- 7Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
- 8Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- 9Krefting Research Centre, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- 10Wallenberg Centre for Molecular and Translational Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Prof. Seif Shaheen, Institute of Population Health Sciences, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, 58 Turner Street, London E1 2AB. E-mail: s.shaheen{at}qmul.ac.uk
Footnotes
Conflict of interest: Dr. Shaheen has nothing to disclose.
Conflict of interest: Dr. Gissler has nothing to disclose.
Conflict of interest: Dr. Devereux has nothing to disclose.
Conflict of interest: Maijaliisa Erkkola
Conflict of interest: Dr. Kinnunen has nothing to disclose.
Conflict of interest: I have no interest to declare
Conflict of interest: Dr. Sheikh reports grants from Asthma UK, during the conduct of the study.
Conflict of interest: Dr. Hemminki has nothing to disclose.
Conflict of interest: Dr. Nwaru has nothing to disclose.
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- Received December 5, 2019.
- Accepted February 4, 2020.
- Copyright ©ERS 2020