A Conversation for The Causes of Asthma
hygiene hypothesis
leo mckern [space for random exotic word juxtaposition generator] Started conversation Dec 15, 2003
a good example of the influence of pollution is asthma rates in the Communist East Germany vs West Germany. East Germany had high pollution but poor hygiene and low asthma rates, West Germany the reverse. In East Africa as parasitic diseases are controlled asthma rates are increasing
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