Childhood Asthma Linked to Sexual and Physical Abuse

Courtesy MedPage Today Emergency Medicine  Tue, 09/02/2008 - 10:27

BOSTON (MedPage Today) -- Physical or sexual abuse may more than double the odds of a child having asthma, according to a study of children in Puerto Rico.


 

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