The impact of birth mode of delivery on childhood asthma and allergic diseases–a sibling study

BACKGROUND: Caesarean section (CS) has been reported to increase the risk of asthma in offspring. This may be due to that infants delivered by CS are unexposed to vaginal flora, according to the ‘hygiene hypothesis’. OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to investigate if CS increases risk of childhood asthma, and...

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Main Authors: Almqvist, C, Cnattingius, S, Lichtenstein, P, Lundholm, C
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3564396/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22925323
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2222.2012.04021.x
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