Infection combined with premature birth increases asthma risk, study says

Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 14:28 in Health & Medicine

An infection of the uterine cavity during pregnancy combined with premature birth doubles the risk that an African American child will develop asthma, researchers have found. The combination also increases risk for some other ethnicities, though less severely.

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