Tove Fall with Dog (IMAGE)
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Tove Fall has lead a team of Swedish scientists who have used national register information in more than one million Swedish children to study the association of early life contact with dogs and subsequent development of asthma. This question has been studied extensively previously, but conclusive findings have been lacking. The new study showed that children who grew up with dogs had about 15 percent less asthma than children without dogs.
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Mikael Wallerstedt
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