Paracetamol and antibiotics in childhood and subsequent development of wheezing/asthma: association or causation? | Zendy

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Paracetamol and antibiotics in childhood and subsequent development of wheezing/asthma: association or causation?

Author(s) -

Franca Rusconi,

Luigi Gagliardi,

Claudia Galassi,

Francesco Forastiere,

Luigia Brunetti,

Stefania La Grutta,

Silvano Piffer,

Fiorella Talassi

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyq263

Subject(s) - wheeze , medicine , odds ratio , asthma , confidence interval , pediatrics , respiratory tract infections , confounding , antibiotics , respiratory sounds , early childhood , respiratory system , psychology , developmental psychology , microbiology and biotechnology , biology

Several studies found an association between early administration of paracetamol and antibiotics and development of wheezing. This could be due to confounding: wheeze and asthmatic symptoms in early childhood are difficult to distinguish from respiratory tract infections that are widely treated with these drugs; in case of persistence of symptoms up to school age, this could explain the observed relationship.

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