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Article: Cutting household allergen levels unlikely to have much impact on asthma.
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- Immunotherapy Weekly
- Article date:
- October 27, 2004
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2004 OCT 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cutting levels of household allergens, such as cat dander and dust mite, is unlikely to have much impact on the subsequent development of childhood asthma and respiratory allergies, suggests new research.
The finding undermines the long-held belief that the intensity of early life exposure to allergens directly influences the risk of developing childhood respiratory allergies and asthma, suggested the authors from the National Heart and Lung Institute, London, whose findings were published in Thorax.
They based their conclusions on 625 children in one town in southern England. They were monitored from birth ...