Posted In: BPA
Publish Date: March 4, 2013
BPA is in the news yet again, and this time it is being linked to childhood asthma. According to the new study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, children who are exposed to BPA are at an increased risk for asthma. But from reading the article, we found a paucity of data to support that assertion. In fact, maybe just the opposite. The study involved 568 women from the Mothers and Newborns study which measured BPA exposure using urine samples taken during the third trimester of pregnancy, and in kids ages 3, 5 and 7 years. Asthma was diagnosed by doctors between the ages of 5 and 12 based on symptoms, medical history and a pulmonary function test. After adjusting for various risk factors, including secondhand smoke, researchers claimed that BPA was linked to increased risk of wheeze and asthma. In fact, in the third trimester, exposure to BPA actually demonstrated an inverse relationship with the development with asthma at 5 years of age. This seems implausible considering exposure to BPA remains constant during the course of a pregnancy….To Read More…..
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