According to a study presented at European Respiratory Society's
International Congress, breast feeding reduces the later risks of asthma
in infants born with a defective chromosome (17q21). The researchers
conducted the study with an aim to find out whether breast feeding have a
modifying effect on this specific gene related to asthma. The study
reported that, in breast-fed infants born with defective gene there was
27 % decrease in the relative risk of developing respiratory symptoms in
than those who were not breastfed. “The study sheds light on how this
interaction can be modified by breastfeeding. This is the first time
that we were able to show the effect of the 17q21 variants on
respiratory symptoms during the 1st year of life, depending on
breastfeeding status”, commented Dr Gorlanova from the University
Children's Hospital Basel (UKBB), and the University of Basel, Basel,
Switzerland.
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