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Asthma and breast feeding
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Wright et al 1 found an increased risk for asthma and wheeze in breastfed children whose mothers had asthma themselves. Data on 9644 children aged 5–6 years from the Bavarian farmers' study2 allowed us to test whether this somewhat unexpected finding is reproducible in a different setting.
Lifetime prevalence of doctor diagnosed asthma (physicians' …