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Article: Study ties kids' allergies to mothers' first periods
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- 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 over 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