Antibiotic use in third trimester of pregnancy increases risk of childhood wheezing

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-12/elf-roc120115.php

Public Release: 2-Dec-2015
Risk of childhood wheeze from antibiotic use in third trimester of pregnancy
European Lung Foundation

Antibiotic use during the third trimester of pregnancy leads to an increased risk of childhood wheeze, according to new findings.

Antibiotic use in pregnancy and the risk of wheeze is a widely debated topic and a new study has evaluated whether confounding factors could explain this suggested association.

The findings, published online today (3 December, 2015) in the European Respiratory Journal, suggest that although prenatal antibiotic exposure and infant wheezing can largely be explained by confounding factors, when these factors were accounted for, the risk associated with taking antibiotics in the third trimester of pregnancy remained.

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