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Article: Allergies, Mothers' Periods Linked
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- July 18, 2000
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EMMA ROSS, AP Medical Writer
AP Online
07-18-2000
Allergies, Mothers' Periods Linked
LONDON (AP) -- The development of allergies in children may be related to the age at which their mothers started having menstrual periods, new research suggests.
The prevalence of allergies and asthma has increased by as much as 80 percent in the developed world over the last decade or so, particularly in children, and scientists can't explain most of the increase. On average, 20 to 25 percent of people in the United States and elsewhere in the developing world have asthma or some other allergic disorder.
A study published this week in the British medical journal Thorax found that allergies were more ...