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Asthma Treatment Leading To Hospitalization 60% More Common In Women
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Women who receive emergency asthma treatment are up to 60 percent more likely to require hospitalization than men are, a new study finds, upholding the longstanding trend of women facing greater risks for allergy and asthma than their male counterparts.
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Breastfeeding is Associated with Reduced Childhood Hospitalization: Evidence from a Scottish Birth Cohort (1997-2009).

Breastfeeding is Associated with Reduced Childhood Hospitalization: Evidence from a Scottish Birth Cohort (1997-2009).

J Pediatr. 2014 Dec 30;

Authors: Ajetunmobi OM, Whyte B, Chalmers J, Tappin DM, Wolfson L, Fleming M, MacDonald A, Wood R, Stockton DL, Glasgow Centre for Population Health Breastfeeding Project Steering Group

Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the risk of childhood hospitalization associated with infant feeding patterns at 6-8 weeks of age in Scotland.
STUDY DESIGN: A retrospective population level study based on the linkage of birth, death, maternity, infant health, child health surveillance, and admission records for children born as single births in Scotland between 1997 and 2009 (n = 502?948) followed up to March 2012. Descriptive analyses, Kaplan Meier tests, and Cox regression were used to quantify the association between the mode of infant feeding and risk of childhood hospitalization for respiratory, gastrointestinal, and urinary tract infections, and other common childhood ailments during the study period.
RESULTS: Within the first 6 months of life, there was a greater hazard ratio (HR) of hospitalization for common childhood illnesses among formula-fed infants (HR 1.40; 95% CI 1.35-1.45) and mixed-fed infants (HR 1.18; 95% CI 1.11-1.25) compared with infants exclusively breastfed after adjustment for parental, maternal, and infant health characteristics. Within the first year of life and beyond, a greater relative risk of hospitalization was observed among formula-fed infants for a range of individual illnesses reported in childhood including gastrointestinal, respiratory, and urinary tract infections, otitis media, fever, asthma, diabetes, and dental caries.
CONCLUSIONS: Using linked administrative data, we found greater risks of hospitalization in early childhood for a range of common childhood illnesses among Scottish infants who were not exclusively breastfed at 6-8 weeks of age.

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Caesarean Section and Hospitalization for Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection: A Population Based Study.

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Caesarean Section and Hospitalization for Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection: A Population Based Study.

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2014 Sep 17;

Authors: Kristensen K, Fisker N, Haerskjold A, Ravn H, Simões EA, Stensballe L

Abstract
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:: Hospitalization for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection and asthma share common determinants, and meta-analyses indicate that children delivered by caesarean section (CS) are at increased risk of asthma. We aimed to investigate whether birth by CS is associated with an increased risk of hospitalization for RSV illness.
METHODS:: This was a population based national register based cohort study, conducted between January 1997 and June 2003, that included all children born in Denmark and all hospitalizations for RSV disease in them from 0 – 23 months of age. We used Cox regression with adjustment for prematurity, asphyxia, birth weight, multiple births, single parenthood, maternal smoking during pregnancy, older siblings, and asthma diagnoses up to 2 weeks before hospitalization for RSV infection, to compare the effects of acute or elective CS versus vaginal delivery, on subsequent hospitalization for RSV disease. A test for homogeneity was used to assess for effect over time.
RESULTS:: 399,175 children with 10,758 hospitalizations for RSV illness were included. 31,715 were born by acute CS and 30,965 by elective CS. Adjusted hazard ratios for hospitalization for RSV infection in children born by acute CS and by elective CS were 1.09 (1.01 – 1.17) and 1.27 (1.19 – 1.36), respectively. The effect of elective CS remained unchanged throughout the first two years of life (p = 0.53), whereas the effect of acute CS was only present in the second year of life (p = 0.001).
CONCLUSION:: Delivery by caesarian section is associated with an increased risk of hospitalization for RSV infeciton. This effect continues at least throughout the first two years of life.

PMID: 25232778 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher]

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Children with asthma who lack primary care are at high risk for hospitalization – Star Local Media

Children with asthma who lack primary care are at high risk for hospitalization
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According to experts at Children's Medical Center Dallas, the first line of defense are the primary care physicians who offer “medical homes” for children with asthma, providing ongoing, coordinated care and assistance in the management and control of

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Children with Asthma Who Lack Primary Care Are at High Risk for Hospitalization
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Women with asthma in their 40s and 50s are twice as likely to be hospitalized from the respiratory disorder, compared with men in the same age group. This is according to a study published in the journal Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.
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Women in their 40s and 50s are hospitalized more than twice as often for asthma-related complications than men in the same age group, a new study finds, bolstering data that shows young boys and older women are at the greatest risk for the disease.
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Menopausal women at greater risk for asthma hospitalization
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Sep. 3, 2013 — Asthma is a disease that mostly affects young boys and adult women. And according to a new study, women in their 40s and 50s with asthma are hospitalized more than twice as often as men in the same age group. The 10-year study is 

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