Impaired foetal growth increases risk of asthma

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 06:00 in Health & Medicine

A new study from the medical university Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm shows that children born with low birth weight are at a higher risk of developing asthma later in life. The study, which is published in the journal Pediatrics, is based on data on the incidence of asthma in 10,918 twins from the Swedish Twin Registry...

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