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Babies Born Via Cesarean Section At Risk Of Asthma In Adulthood.
2001 MAY 10 - (NewsRx Network) -- Babies born via cesarean section are more likely to be diagnosed with asthma in adulthood, according to researchers writing in the April 2001 Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology.
Baizhuang Xu, MD, PhD, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, and colleagues from the National Public Health Institute, Kuopio, Finland, and the University of Oulu, Finland, collected demographic data from a large cohort of children born in northern Finland in 1966. In 1997, when the members of the group were 31 years of age, information on doctor-diagnosed asthma and other allergic disorders was obtained from 1,953 of the subjects by a self-administered questionnaire and allergy skin prick test.
The researchers evaluated whether the mode of birth (vaginal delivery vs. cesarean section) had any significant impact upon the subsequent development of allergies and asthma in young adulthood.
Xu et al. found that the type of delivery had no significant impact on the ...
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