IGHE and allergic disease: In accordance with the findings of a previous longitudinal study, which found that a decreasing trend in infantile body mass index Z-scores was significantly associated with a higher prevalence of IgE sensitization in 1-year-olds, a previous cross-sectional study revealed that body height was negatively associated with egg white sensitization and positively associated with mite sensitization in a preschool subgroup of children with allergies [28,29].