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Maternal depression may aggravate childhood asthma

Children with depressed mothers are likely to frequently suffer asthma symptoms, reveals a new study.
According to Johns Hopkins researchers, maternal depression aggravates a child’s asthma.
They looked at 262 mothers of African-American children with asthma and found that children whose mothers had more depressive symptoms had more frequent asthma symptoms during the six-months of the study. [...]