U.S. Birth Raises Asthma Risk for Mexican Americans
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NEW YORK  - 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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NEW YORK  - 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.
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Babies who are breast-fed for their first four months of life have a reduced risk of asthma during their first four years, says a Swedish study in the October issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
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Air fresheners, furniture polish and household cleaners appear to increase the risk of asthma in young children, a study has found.
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NEW YORK  - In a recent U.S. survey of asthma patients, more than half reported that their disease is uncontrolled and that they have never received an asthma action plan, according to a report in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
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NEW YORK  - 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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WEDNESDAY, May 23 (HealthDay News) -- Severe, persistent asthma is more likely to strike obese individuals than people who are not overweight, U.S. researchers report.
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The longer immigrants live in the United States, the more likely they are to take on what has become an increasingly common American characteristic: obesity.
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FRIDAY, Dec. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Children with asthma who are exposed to traffic pollution are at increased risk for respiratory problems and reduced lung volumes, says a study that looked at children in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez, a crossing point into the United States.
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A study published in the journal &#39;Thorax&#39; has revealed that high levels of antibodies to allergens in a baby&#39;s umbilical cord blood might be more important in the development of childhood allergies and asthma than exposure to allergens.
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NEW YORK  - In adults, the development of insulin resistance, a precursor to diabetes, is influenced more by current body weight than by birth weight, results of a study in twins suggests.
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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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EL PASO - People who live along the US-Mexican border suffer diabetes at a rate somewhat higher than the national averages in either country, according to a study released Wednesday.
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WEDNESDAY, Nov. 24 (HealthDayNews) -- Stress caused by events such as moving, changes in family relationships and death can raise a child's risks for asthma attacks four-fold, according to a study in the latest issue of the journal Thorax.
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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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Stress caused by events such as moving, changes in family relationships and death can raise a child&#39;s risks for asthma attacks four-fold, according to a study in the latest issue of the journal Thorax.
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More than 34 million U.S. residents were born outside the United States, with arrivals from Mexico driving much of the growth in the foreign-born population since 2000, a private research group says.