3.4. Associations between the first 2-year home environment and
health outcomes
In the initialmultiple logistic regression analyses,with one exposure
in each model, positive associations were generally found between the
home environment in the first 2 years of life and new onset of wheeze
and rhinitis while fewassociationswere found for newonset of eczema
symptoms (Table 3). For onset of at least one of the three symptoms, all
investigated factors showed significant positive associations with the
highest OR of 2.07 (95% CI 1.45–2.95) for the perception of moldy