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Article: Link between child allergies, mother's first period suggested
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Article date:
- July 19, 2000
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LONDON - 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 during the
last decade or so, particularly in children, and scientists can't
explain most of the increase. On average, 20 percent 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 common among people whose mothers
started menstruating early and less prevalent among ...