PMC:1247560 / 26135-26986 JSONTXT

{"target":"https://pubannotation.org/docs/sourcedb/PMC/sourceid/1247560","sourcedb":"PMC","sourceid":"1247560","source_url":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/1247560","text":"In the literature, middle ear infections are the most consistently reported infections associated with prenatal exposure to OCs. In our study, the strongest dose–response relationship was seen with ear infections. However, it is likely that insults of OCs on the developing immune system would result in the increase of incidence of many different types of acute infections and not only ear infections. Consistent with that assumption, our results showed a higher incidence rate for the four most frequent infections in infants in the higher exposure groups, and the rate ratios were similar to that observed for otitis. Furthermore, when these four types of infections were combined, the association was more stable and the magnitude of the dose–response relationship was increased, compared with that of the four types of infection taken separately.","tracks":[]}