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Depression in Pregnancy Raises Kids’ Asthma Risk (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com – Staying stress-free during pregnancy does more than make life happier for a mom-to-be. It also may protect her baby from developing asthma during childhood, according to a new study.

Researchers from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health followed 279 inner-city African-American and Dominican women during their pregnancies. The researchers measured the women’s stress and anxiety levels using a series of questionnaires. When the babies were born, researchers tracked the health of the children through age 7. …

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Depression in Pregnancy Linked to Childhood Asthma
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High levels of anxiety, stress or depression during pregnancy may be associated with a greater risk of asthma for the baby, suggests a new study that focused on inner-city minority women. Somewhat similar findings regarding an association between …
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Bitter-Sweet Find: Taste Receptors Hiding Out in Lungs – LiveScience.com


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Bitter-Sweet Find: Taste Receptors Hiding Out in Lungs
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To find out what these receptors do in the lung, Liggett and his colleagues exposed bitter compounds to human and mouse airways and to mice with asthma. …
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‘Thirdhand Smoke’ Especially Harmful For Asthma Sufferers – LiveScience.com


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'Thirdhand Smoke' Especially Harmful For Asthma Sufferers
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These "ultrafine" particles, less than 100 nanometers wide, can make their way deep into a person's lungs and could present a bigger threat to asthma …
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