TY - JOUR T1 - Raw milk consumption and other early-life farm exposures and adult pulmonary function in the Agricultural Lung Health Study JF - Thorax JO - Thorax DO - 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2017-210031 SP - thoraxjnl-2017-210031 AU - Annah B Wyss AU - John S House AU - Jane A Hoppin AU - Marie Richards AU - John L Hankinson AU - Stuart Long AU - Paul K Henneberger AU - Laura E Beane Freeman AU - Dale P Sandler AU - Elizabeth Long O’Connell AU - Christie Barker Cummings AU - David M Umbach AU - Stephanie J London Y1 - 2017/07/07 UR - http://thorax.bmj.com/content/early/2017/07/07/thoraxjnl-2017-210031.abstract N2 - Literature suggests that early exposure to the farming environment protects against atopy and asthma; few studies have examined pulmonary function. We evaluated associations between early-life farming exposures and pulmonary function in 3061 adults (mean age=63) from a US farming population using linear regression. Childhood raw milk consumption was associated with higher FEV1 (β=49.5 mL, 95% CI 2.8 to 96.1 mL, p=0.04) and FVC (β=66.2 mL, 95% CI 13.2 to 119.1 mL, p=0.01). We did not find appreciable associations with other early-life farming exposures. We report a novel association between raw milk consumption and higher pulmonary function that lasts into older adulthood. ER -