Researchers investigating the reasons for children’s asthma epidemic have identified child abuse as one more potential cause.
The researchers, from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, who studied children in Puerto Rico because of the high incidence of asthma, found those who had gone through physical or sexual abuse were much more likely to suffer from asthma than those who had not been mistreated.
But the abused children represented only a small fraction of the total number with asthma.
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