No Link Between Antibiotics And Childhood Asthma

In epidemiology, matching curves are often enough to imply causation and so it is often done, even if there is no evidence to warrant the link. There has been an increased use of antibiotics and there are an increased number of diagnoses so some epidemiologists looked at those two curves in the same direction and suggested one may be causing the other. A new analysis of about 500,000 children published in BMJ dismisses those claims and finds that exposure to antibiotics during pregnancy or early in life does not appear to increase the risk of asthma.  read more

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