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Disease & Conditions | Avatar Posted by FatMan 142 days ago (http://www.medicalnewstoday.com) | Health Tags: asthma childhood asthma
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Researchers in the US have found that childhood asthma is significantly less likely in children infected with Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), a bacterium that has inhabited the stomach and small intestine of humans for thousands of years. They found that children between the ages of 3 and 13 were nearly 59 per cent less likely to have asthma if they carried the bug.
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