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To the Editor: The article by Sears et al. (Oct. 9 issue),¹ as well as the accompanying editorial by Martinez,² emphasizes the important contribution of early childhood experiences to the burden of asthma in adults in Dunedin, New Zealand, but fails to remark on the protective effect of breast-feeding on this disease. This omission appears to be a result of the method used to measure breast-feeding. According to an earlier report,³ the Dunedin study contains information on the duration of any breast-feeding, and more than half the women who initiated any breast-feeding (as compared with exclusive breast-feeding) weaned their infants . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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