{"id":1712,"date":"2008-09-19T11:32:20","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T09:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2008-09-20T13:44:11","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T11:44:11","slug":"asthma-is-a-iatrogenic-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2008\/09\/asthma-is-a-iatrogenic-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Asthma is a iatrogenic disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new Lancet has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140673608614476\/abstract\">paper from our own group<\/a> as well as another one from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140673608614452\/abstract\">ISAAC<\/a>. We have already <a href=\"http:\/\/medicine.plosjournals.org\/perlserv\/?request=get-document&#038;doi=10.1371\/journal.pmed.0040072\">suggested<\/a> earlier that asthma is a iatrogenic disease-  the ISAAC paper now confirms at least the long suspected association with paracetamol use &#8211; gratulations to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.imperial.ac.uk\/medicine\/people\/s.shaheen\/\">London friend<\/a> who had been working so long on this hypothesis. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140673608614178\/fulltext\">accompanying editorial<\/a> puts in into context:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Furthermore, although many important potential confounders were included in multivariate analyses, confounding by underlying respiratory disease, differences in hygiene, and use of other antipyretics might also explain the findings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To put it more on a general level &#8211; more iatrogenic factors cannot be excluded, yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 05.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Lancet has a paper from our own group as well as another one from ISAAC. We have already suggested earlier that asthma is a iatrogenic disease- the ISAAC paper now confirms at least the long suspected association with paracetamol use &#8211; gratulations to my London friend who had been working so long on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2008\/09\/asthma-is-a-iatrogenic-disease\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Asthma is a iatrogenic disease<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[199,1353,2060,569,1287],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asthma-allergy","category-genetics-biology","tag-allergy","tag-antibiotic_use","tag-lancet","tag-medicine","tag-vitamin-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}