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Infant Antibiotics = Asthma
To Your Health (blog) Three studies have demonstrated an association between antibiotics and childhood asthma. The first study found that “both prenatal (before birth) and post-natal exposure to antibiotics was associated with an increased risk of asthma.” Building on this … |
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Antibiotics May Not Raise Asthma Risk
New York Times (blog) The study, published in BMJ, initially found an apparent link between antibiotic use and later asthma, but the association disappeared when researchers looked at siblings. They found no difference in asthma development between siblings who had taken … Antibiotics Early in Life Not Linked to Later Asthma |
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Confounding familial factors could influence link between antibiotics …
Healio “Our results indicate that there is no causal link between antibiotics treatment and childhood asthma,” researcher Catarina Almqvist Malmros, MD, PhD, pediatrician and professor at the department of medical epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska … |
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No Link Between Antibiotics And Childhood Asthma
Science 2.0 It may be difficult to diagnose asthma in small children since newly presented symptoms of asthma can be misinterpreted as a respiratory infection. The children may then have received antibiotics for the supposed infection – which actually is asthma … |
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Link between antibiotics and childhood asthma called into question
Medical News Today Several studies have demonstrated a link between maternal antibiotic use during pregnancy or early childhood antibiotic use and increased risk of the child developing asthma. Though such studies have led to general belief of a causal link, researchers … Causal link between antibiotics and childhood asthma dismissed |
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Causal link between antibiotics and childhood asthma dismissed
Medical Xpress In a new register study in the scientific journal BMJ, researchers at Karolinska Institutet are able to dismiss previous claims that there is a link between the increased use of antibiotics in society and a coinciding rise in childhood asthma. The … |
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Researchers dismiss causal link between antibiotics treatment and childhood …
News-Medical.net In a new register study in the scientific journal BMJ, researchers at Karolinska Institutet are able to dismiss previous claims that there is a link between the increased use of antibiotics in society and a coinciding rise in childhood asthma. The … |
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THRIVE | The perfect storm: Ear infections, antibiotics, asthma, allergies
Queen Anne News This is Part 1 of a two-part series that is intended to take us on the all-too-commonly-seen path from childhood ear infections to lifelong asthma and immune challenges. It starts with the way we birth and deliver babies. For thousands of years, kids … |
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Why the overuse of antibiotics may be linked to asthma and obesity
The Diane Rehm Show Researchers say the overuse of antibiotics is disturbing the natural balance of bacteria in our bodies. Why some diseases, including obesity and asthma, may be on the rise because we are killing off beneficial microbes. Medical researchers are worried … |
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Giving antibiotics to infants may make them more prone to asthma, study says
Washington Post By age 3, about 18 percent of the children had developed wheezing or asthma. Compared with those who had never taken antibiotics, children who had taken the medication in infancy were twice as likely to have developed wheezing and 60 percent more … |
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