Microbiome links breast-feeding and asthma protection: A cohort study helps elucidate this underlying player

Affiliations

¹ Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Mo.
² Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Center for Perinatal, Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Conn. Electronic address: andrew.dewan@yale.edu.

Editorial

Leyao Wang et al. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2022 Sep.

. 2022 Sep;150(3):587-588.

doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2022.07.017. Epub 2022 Aug 4.

¹ Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Mo.
² Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Center for Perinatal, Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Conn. Electronic address: andrew.dewan@yale.edu.

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Keywords: Breast-feeding; childhood asthma; infant gut microbiome; infant nasal microbiome; mediation; respiratory health.

Comment on

Exclusive breast-feeding, the early-life microbiome and immune response, and common childhood respiratory illnesses.
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