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Time to Accept Asthma 'Hygiene Hypothesis'?
MedPage Today One theory of asthma, dubbed the hygiene hypothesis, holds that it stems from lack of exposure to immune-tolerizing microbes early in life. This theory appears to have gotten a big boost from a Swedish registry study published this week. In this 150 … |
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Lung Disease News |
Study's Findings on Asthma Do Not Support the “Hygiene Hypothesis”
Lung Disease News Since its theoretical inception, the hygiene hypothesis has become a widely accepted explanation for the swift rise in the number of children with allergic disorders and asthma in the developed world. Even though this notion that the excessive … |
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A New Hypothesis For Asthma in Blacks: Are Medications Part Of The Problem?
St. Louis Public Radio Medical researchers have been trying for years to figure out why asthma is much more prevalent among African Americans than whites. The easy answers include numerous environmental factors, such as allergens associated with pollution, cockroaches, … |
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Medical Daily |
Can Salmonella Lower Asthma Risk? Hygiene Hypothesis Upheld In Mouse …
Medical Daily Prior research into Salmonella's impact on allergies has shown that children who were infected had lower rates of asthma later in life than other adults who were never infected as kids. The mechanism of the present study is the same in mice models … Salmonella Infections Reduce Asthma Attacks Could asthma be treated with PROBIOTICS? Bug that mimics salmonella could … Salmonella Infection Mitigates Asthma |
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Hygiene Hypothesis And Why Amish Kids Have Less Asthma
Science 2.0 "In the general population as many as 50 percent will have evidence of allergic sensitivity," says Dr. Mark Holbreich, an allergist with Allergy and Asthma Consultants. In Amish kids? 7 percent. About what I grew up with in the general population. |
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Gastric bacterium protects against asthma and proves hygiene hypothesis
Gizmag It's widely recognized that asthma rates have increased significantly since the 1960's and continue to rise. With increases in asthma and other allergic diseases centered on industrialized nations, a recent hypothesis suggested that the … Does H. Pylori Bacterium Protect Against Asthma? Gastric Bacterium Infection Can Be Guarded to Allergy Induced Asthma Gastric bug H. pylori protects against asthma |
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