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Allergy-Induced Asthma More Common in Affluent Countries
Date:9/17/2007

ialist at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore in New York City. "It's likely that the environment being different -- both indoors and outdoors -- is responsible for the differences in this study."

Khadavi said, "In non-affluent countries, children may have worse nutrition and be exposed to worse pollution, and more of those things could lead to their asthma, instead of allergies."

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SOURCES: Alan Khadavi, M.D., pediatric asthma specialist, New York University Medical Center, New York City; Sandra Braganza, M.D., pediatric asthma specialist, the Children's Hospital at Montefiore, New York City; September 2007, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine


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