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Article: Avoiding house dust mites may not prevent asthma
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- June 29, 2006
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Sydney, June 29 -- Avoiding house dust mites (HDM) or modifying diets may not help prevent the onset of asthma in high-risk children, says a new study.
Doctor Guy Marks from the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research and other researchers studied the role of early exposure to environmental factors in the development of asthma. They recruited over 600 newborn children with a family history of asthma in western and southwestern Sydney, reported the science portal EurekAlert.
The study was designed specifically to test HDM avoidance and dietary fatty acid modification as interventions to prevent asthma and allergic disease in children with a family history of ...