U.S. Birth Raises Asthma Risk for Mexican Americans
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Mexican Americans who are born in the US are at least twice as likely as those born in Mexico to develop asthma, according to a new report.
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LONDON - Babies with high levels of allergy antibodies in their umbilical cord blood may be more prone to develop asthma, new research suggests.
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New guidelines unveiled by U.S.  federal health experts on Wednesday for tackling asthma carve  out a new age group, children 5 to 11, for unique treatment.
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Children who are not exclusively breastfed during the first 6 months of infancy have a higher risk of asthma and allergy, according to a report from Australia.
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SUNDAY, Feb. 18 (HealthDay News) -- There's a new bilingual handbook designed to help Hispanic parents in the United States recognize attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in their children.
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A British Medical Journal (BMJ) study has revealed that in the northern hemisphere, being born in May, is linked to an increased risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS) later in life, while being born in November carries the lowest risk.
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More adults, especially women,  are smoking these days and their secondhand smoke may be  contributing to the asthma epidemic among children in the  United States, results of a study suggest.
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THURSDAY, Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. researchers are launching a major population-based study to examine the genetic and environmental factors that may cause many diseases, including asthma, Alzheimer's, cancer, depression, diabetes, heart disease and reproductive problems, among others.
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Women who follow the famous Mediterranean diet while pregnant may also be shielding their baby from childhood asthma and allergy, a study published on Tuesday says.
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NEW YORK  - A mother's weight seems to have  a strong influence over her young child's weight only in  Hispanic families, while other health factors are apparently  carried over between black mothers and their children, new  research suggests.
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A new study suggests that genetics may contribute to the high rate of African-American babies who are born early.
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Pregnant women who use a lot of household chemical products are more likely to have babies with persistent wheezing, new research reports.
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CHICAGO -- Immigrants who come to the United States in search of a better life may actually be harming their health. A newly released study finds that obesity is relatively rare in immigrants when they arrive
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NEW YORK  - The weight of the mother before pregnancy, as well as additional weight gained during pregnancy, are often excessive and blood sugar abnormalities are common, in women of Mexican descent who are living in the U.S., researchers report. These factors help explain the high infant birth weights seen in this group, according to the study findings published in American Journal of Public Health.
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Exposure to harmful factors in early childhood could play a bigger-than-expected role in shaping respiratory problems in adult life.
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"In terms of an asthma gene, there have been quite a few reports but not one that can be clearly reproduced in samples"  A gene that is strongly associated with a risk of developing childhood onset asthma was identified by an international team of scientists, whose findings are published today in the journal Nature. via Science Blog
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Smoking during pregnancy is  known to raise a child's future asthma risk, but children with  a particular gene variation may be especially vulnerable, a  study published Tuesday suggests.