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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