BACKGROUND AND METHODS. Children with asthma commonly have positive skin tests for inhaled allergens, and in the United Kingdom the majority of older children with asthma are sensitized to the house-dust mite. In a cohort of British children at risk for allergic disease because of family history, we investigated prospectively from 1978 to 1989 the relation between exposure to the house-dust mite allergen (Der p I) and the development of sensitization and asthma. RESULTS. Of the 67 children studied in 1989, 35 were atopic (positive skin tests), and 32 were nonatopic. Of the 17 with active asthma, 16 were atopic (P less than 0.005), all of whom were sensitized to the house-dust mite, as judged by positive skin tests and levels of specific IgE antibodies (P less than 0.001). For house-dust samples collected from the homes of 59 of the children in 1979 and from 65 homes in 1989, the geometric means for the highest Der p I exposure were, respectively, 16.1 and 16.8 micrograms per gram of sieved dust. There was a trend toward an increasing degree of sensitization at the age of 11 with greater exposure at the age of 1 (P = 0.062). All but one of the children with asthma at the age of 11 had been exposed at 1 year of age to more than 10 micrograms of Der p I per gram of dust; for this exposure, the relative risk of asthma was 4.8 (P = 0.05). The age at which the first episode of wheezing occurred was inversely related to the level of exposure at the age of 1 for all children (P = 0.015), but especially for the atopic children (r = -0.66, P = 0.001). CONCLUSIONS. In addition to genetic factors, exposure in early childhood to house-dust mite allergens is an important determinant of the subsequent development of asthma.
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