@inbook{e3d39231f499490f85cc26dbea943d29,
title = "History of allergic disease and risk of meningioma",
abstract = "Epidemiologic studies have consistently shown inverse associations of allergic disease with risk of glioma, but it is unclear whether this association also applies to meningioma. The authors conducted a pooled analysis of meningioma risk in relation to a history of allergic disease based on data from two population-based, case-control studies with 475 cases and 1,716 controls in the United Kingdom (2001-2004). Meningioma risk was significantly reduced in relation to self-reported, physician-diagnosed allergic disease (odds ratio = 0.76, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.61, 0.96) but was nonsignificantly reduced for individual conditions: asthma (odds ratio = 0.85, 95% CI: 0.61, 1.18), hay fever (odds ratio = 0.81, 95% CI: 0.62, 1.06), and eczema (odds ratio = 0.72, 95% CI: 0.51, 1.02). Risk reductions were greatest for asthma (odds ratio = 0.43, 95% CI: 0.21, 0.89) and hay fever (odds ratio = 0.50, 95% CI: 0.25, 1.00) with an early age at onset (",
keywords = "Allergy and immunology, Case-control studies, Meningioma",
author = "Schoemaker, {M. J.} and Swerdlow, {A. J.} and Hepworth, {S. J.} and {Van Tongeren}, M. and Muir, {K. R.} and McKinney, {P. A.}",
year = "2007",
month = mar,
doi = "10.1093/aje/kwk048",
language = "English",
isbn = "0002-9262 (Print)",
volume = "165",
series = "American Journal of Epidemiology",
pages = "477--485",
booktitle = "American Journal of Epidemiology",
edition = "5",
}