Review Article
Different Implications of Paternal and Maternal Atopy for Perinatal IgE Production and Asthma Development
Table 3
Postnatal environmental factors associated with risk of childhood asthma.
| Increased risk of childhood asthma | Decreased risk of childhood asthma |
| Environmental tobacco smoke exposure [60, 81–84] | Exposure to a farming environment [68] | Exposure to traffic exhaust and air pollution [64, 85, 86] | Breastfeeding [87, 88] | Rhinovirus-related wheezing [89] | | Early exposure to acetaminophen [90] | | Broad spectrum antibiotics used in early childhood [91] | | Early introduction of solid diet at infancy [67, 92] | |
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