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Asthma
Premature babies delivered by cesarean face higher asthma risk
March 17th, 2005
Cesarean delivery is associated with an increased risk of childhood asthma hospitalization in premature infants, but not in full-term infants, researchers have determined. An investigation by Jason S. Debley, MD, MPH, and colleagues at the University of Washington, Seattle, provides new insight into why cesarean delivery may predispose an infant to having asthma. Previous study results on the association between mode of birth and asthma are conflicting, and do not take into account the effects of prematurity and maternal asthma, according to the investigators. The new findings were published in the February 2005 Annals of Allergy, Asthma &...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-03-17)
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