Milk serum fatty acid composition is associated with preschool asthma but does not correspond with fatty acid pattern in serum in children from the PASTURE/EFRAIM-Study

Specific milk fatty acids (FA) are suggested to act preventive against allergy and asthma development and might thereby contribute to the farm effect. Within a case-control-study on preschool asthma nested into the multi-center “Protection against Allergies Study in Rural Environments/Mechanisms of Early Protective Exposures on Allergy Development (PASTURE/EFRAIM)” at the age of 4.5 we aimed to investigate possible associations between milk and serum FA pattern and preschool asthma. Milk and serum were sampled at 4.5 years from cases with preschool asthma (n=64) and healthy controls (n=64) and subsequently quant…