No obvious impact of caesarean delivery on childhood allergic outcomes: findings from Australian cohorts

As caesarean delivery and childhood allergy continue to rise, their inter-relationships may change. We examined whether caesarean delivery predicts allergic disease and impaired lung function in two contemporary harmonised population-based cohorts.Parent-reported asthma and eczema data were drawn from two prospective Australian infant cohorts, HealthNuts (n=5276, born 2006-2010) and the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC, n=5107,...