An intervention program resulted in a modest but significant reduction in the risk of possible or probable asthma and rhinitis without apparent colds at the age of 12 months in high-risk infants, according to an article in the July issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, a member of the Journal of the American Medical Association family of journals.

Moira Chan-Yeung, MB, from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and colleagues undertook a randomized, controlled study of 545 infants at high-risk for asthma to assess the effectiveness of a multifaceted intervention program in the primary prevention of asthma.

The intervention included avoidance of house dust mite and pet allergens and environmental tobacco smoke, encouragement of breastfeeding, and supplementation with a partially hydrolyzed formula.

Editor's Note: To contact Moira Chan-Yeung, M.B., call Hilary Thomson at 604-822-2644. For information regarding financial support, please see funding and acknowledgment sections at end of the article.

(Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. 2000;154:657-663)

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