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Pregnancy Stress Ups Kid's Asthma Risk

Babies' immune systems respond to pressures on moms

By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff

Posted May 19, 2008 4:12 PM CDT

(Newser) – Stress an expectant mother experiences can increase her child’s predisposition to allergies and asthma, Reuters reports. Mothers-to-be with high stress levels gave birth to babies with high levels of an immune compound involved in the allergenic response, Harvard researchers found—even when their environmental...   Read full story »

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