Is immunoglobulin E to Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxins associated with asthma at 20 years?
Asthmatics at age 20 were more often sensitized to SE compared to controls. Our study may indicate a moderate relationship between SE-sensitization and asthma; however, this association attenuated after adjusting for potential confounders and was no longer statistically significant. Longitudinal investigations with SE-IgE measurements at different time points in larger samples are needed to explore the temporal manner of this relationship.
The findings show that both ChE and FLUS are significantly correlated with HbA1c, independent of BMI and age.