Family history of cancer associated with asthma diagnosis in children.

[2greys]

It’s well known there’s a genetic component to cancer, and that cancer often runs in families. A new study being presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) Annual Scientific Meeting in Houston shows an association between a family history of cancer and a childhood asthma diagnosis.

“We used data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) from 2012-2016 to track information on children who have been diagnosed with asthma,” says allergy and immunology fellow Sairaman Nagarajan, MD, lead author of the study. “Of the more than 57,000 children whose information we examined, more than 20 percent of those who had a family history of cancer had an asthma diagnosis.”

The children represented in the survey were 51 percent male and 49 percent female. The children with asthma were older (10 years vs 8 years) than the children without asthma.

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[Hellodolly]

Morning - thanks for posting .

I don’t understand the statistics of this. If 20% had an asthma/ familial cancer link, that means that 80% did not, which would probably fit with general population data anyway, given that cancer affects 1 in 2 people over a lifetime. It looks to me as though it’s coincidence rather than necessarily related.

Hope you are not overdoing it at work!

[2greys in reply to Hellodolly]

No I am not. I have been at home, in the warm and dry all week, thank you for asking.