Foto: Mikael Wallerstedt A team of Swedish scientists have used national registries encompassing more than one million Swedish children to study the association between early life contact with dogs and
subsequent development of asthma.
The real challenge, however, was to investigate whether the relief of skin inflammation might influence
the subsequent development of asthma.
To date, the present study is the largest to investigate the association between levels of long - chain omega - 3 and omega - 6 fatty acids in the blood and
subsequent development of asthma and other allergic diseases.
Not exact matches
«We know that mothers» exposure to air pollution during pregnancy can affect lung
development of their babies and lead to
subsequent respiratory disorders, including
asthma, although little is known about whether timing
of the exposure is important to consider,» said lead author Yueh - Hsiu Mathilda Chiu, ScD, from the Department
of Pediatrics at Icahn School
of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.
Our goal is to establish the association
of virulent RSV strains between early childhood wheezing, severe acute bronchiolitis and
subsequent asthma development and
asthma pathogenesis.
The results
of the Immune Tolerance Network's (ITN) «Learning Early About Peanut» (LEAP), discussed on February 23, 2015 at the American Academy
of Allergy,
Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting and published in the New England Journal
of Medicine, demonstrate that consumption
of a peanut - containing snack by infants who are at high - risk for developing peanut allergy prevents the
subsequent development of allergy.