Antibiotics before age 2 increases risk for childhood obesity

Tuesday, March 22, 2016 - 10:30 in Health & Medicine

While early antibiotic use has been associated with a number of rare long-term health consequences, new research links antibiotics to one of the most important and growing public health problems worldwide — obesity. A study1 published online in Gastroenterology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association, found that administration of three or more courses […]

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