According to a study, about 90 percent of children with two copies of a common genetic variation and who wheezed when they caught a cold early in life went on to develop asthma by age 6. The study was published on March 28 by the iNew England Journal of Medicine/i. These children, all from families with a history of asthma or allergies, were nearly four times as likely to develop the disease as those who lacked the genetic variation and did not wheeze. The ...Friday, 29 March 2013
Study Ties Childhood Asthma to Combination of Genes and Wheezing Illness
According to a study, about 90 percent of children with two copies of a common genetic variation and who wheezed when they caught a cold early in life went on to develop asthma by age 6. The study was published on March 28 by the iNew England Journal of Medicine/i. These children, all from families with a history of asthma or allergies, were nearly four times as likely to develop the disease as those who lacked the genetic variation and did not wheeze. The ...
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