Early-Life Exposure to Oral Antibiotics and Lung Function Into Early Adulthood

Abstract

K Dos Santos, CJ Lodge, MJ Abramson. Chest. 2020;157(2):334–341 To examine the association between early-life exposure to antibiotics and lung function and to assess whether antibiotic use puts children with mutations of the glutathione S-transferase (GST) superfamily at greater risk of developing lung function impairment. This study included 620 infants with a family history of allergy from the Melbourne Atopy Cohort Study in Australia. This study collected parent-reported data via …