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Article: Children With Dogs, Cats Have Reduced Risk of Allergies.
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- August 27, 2002
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Byline: Medical College of Georgia
AUGUSTA, Ga., Aug. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Children who grow up with dogs and cats in the home have a significantly reduced risk of developing common allergies- some by 50 percent or more - a surprising finding resulting from a study following hundreds of children from birth to nearly age 7.
"We simply started looking at our data to see if exposure to dogs and cats really increases the risk and the data didn't look the way it was supposed to; as a matter of fact, it was very strongly the opposite of what we expected to find," said Dr. Dennis R. Ownby, chief of the Medical College of Georgia Section of Allergy and ...