by KYW medical editor Dr. Brian McDonough
Babies born in the fall before the height of the cold and flu season may be at greater risk to develop asthma.
This according to researchers at Vanderbilt University. What the researchers did was they looked at over 95,000 cases of asthma, and they found that babies born at that particular time of the year had the higher risk, but why?
Well, their theory is there is an increased risk that time of the year for an inflamed respiratory track, and in children who have genetic susceptibility for asthma, that combination can lead to trouble.
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