Jump to full article: BBC Online, 2009-07-21
Intro: Stressed parents may play a role in childhood asthma, researchers believe.
They found the children of tense parents who lived in polluted areas were far more likely to have asthma than friends in the same neighbourhood.
The University of Southern California team believe parental anxieties combine with other known risk factors to increase a child's asthma risk.
They told Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences there might be an underlying biological explanation. . . .
These results suggest that children from stressful households are more susceptible to the effects of traffic-related pollution and in utero tobacco smoke on the development of asthma
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