The Journal of Pediatrics
Volume 151, Issue 4 , Pages 352-358 , October 2007

Solid Food Introduction in Relation to Eczema: Results from a Four-Year Prospective Birth Cohort Study

  • Birgit Filipiak, MSc

      Affiliations

    • GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Epidemiology, Neuherberg, Germany
    • Institute of Medical Data Management, Biometrics and Epidemiology, Ludwig Maximilians University, the Technical University of Munich, Germany
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  • Anne Zutavern, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Epidemiology, Neuherberg, Germany
    • Department of Pediatrics, Ludwig Maximilians University, the Technical University of Munich, Germany
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  • Sibylle Koletzko, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Ludwig Maximilians University, the Technical University of Munich, Germany
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  • Andrea von Berg, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Marien-Hospital Wesel, Wesel, Germany.
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  • Inken Brockow, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Epidemiology, Neuherberg, Germany
    • Department of Pediatrics, Munich, Germany
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  • Armin Grübl, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Munich, Germany
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  • Dietrich Berdel, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Marien-Hospital Wesel, Wesel, Germany.
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  • Dietrich Reinhardt, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Ludwig Maximilians University, the Technical University of Munich, Germany
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  • Carl Peter Bauer, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Munich, Germany
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  • H.-Erich Wichmann, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Epidemiology, Neuherberg, Germany
    • Institute of Medical Data Management, Biometrics and Epidemiology, Ludwig Maximilians University, the Technical University of Munich, Germany
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  • Joachim Heinrich, PhD

      Affiliations

    • GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Epidemiology, Neuherberg, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Joachim Heinrich, PhD, GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Epidemiology, Ingolstädter Landstrasse 1, D-85764 Neuherberg, Germany.
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  • GINI-Group

      Affiliations

    • See Acknowledgment.

Received 16 October 2006 ,Revised 21 March 2007 ,Accepted 4 May 2007.

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 Supported by the Federal Ministry for Education, Science, Research and Technology, Grant No. 01 EE 9401-4 and the Child Health Foundation. Nestlè, Hipp, Milupa, Numico, and Mead Johnson provided the study formulas for the intervention study. The nonintervention subgroup of the GINI-Study was founded by GSF National Research Center for Environment and Health.

PII: S0022-3476(07)00466-0

doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2007.05.018

The Journal of Pediatrics
Volume 151, Issue 4 , Pages 352-358 , October 2007

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