Maternal positive skin prick test results and asthma prediction after early childhood wheezing.

Background: Previous studies have used parental history of asthma or allergy but not positive skin prick test results to predict the evolution of asthma in wheezing infants.

Objective: To determine whether positive parental skin prick test results serve as a predictive factor for the subsequent development of asthma in a child with a history of wheezing before the age of 3 years.

Methods: In a retrospective cohort study we investigated 91 individuals from 71 families.