Skip Navigation


QJM Advance Access originally published online on February 2, 2008
QJM 2008 101(3):237-239; doi:10.1093/qjmed/hcn004
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
101/3/237    most recent
hcn004v1
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in ISI Web of Science
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Disclaimer
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Seaton, A.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Seaton, A.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Association of Physicians. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

From nurture to Nature—the story of the Aberdeen asthma dietary hypothesis

A. Seaton

From the Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, University of Aberdeen and Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Address correspondence to Professor Anthony Seaton, 8 Avon Grove Cramond, Edinburgh EH4 6RF, Scotland, UK. email: a.seaton{at}abdn.ac.uk

Received 22 November 2007 and in revised form 19 December 2007


  Abstract

This article recounts the story of the dietary hypothesis for the rise in asthma and allergies from the first idea to publication of papers showing an association of maternal diet during pregnancy with rise of asthma in the offspring at 2 and 5 years. The nutrient most consistently associated with this endpoint is vitamin E, and it is suggested that reductions in the intake of this vitamin during pregnancy over past decades could explain up to a third of the excess cases of childhood asthma.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?




Disclaimer:
Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.