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Caesarian sections may increase asthma risk

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Review hints that exposure to mum's microbes protects against asthma.

Children delivered by caesarian section are 20% more likely to develop asthma, concludes a new review of previous research. This may help to explain the skyrocketing incidence of asthma in recent decades, the researchers suggest.

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  1. Thavagnanam, S . et al. Clin. Exp. Allergy doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2007.02780.x (2007).

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Kaplan, M. Caesarian sections may increase asthma risk. Nature (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2007.201

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