TY - JOUR T1 - Early exposure to dogs and farm animals reduces risk of childhood asthma JF - Evidence Based Medicine JO - Evid Based Med SP - 80 LP - 80 DO - 10.1136/ebmed-2015-110373 VL - 21 IS - 2 AU - Iny Jhun AU - Wanda Phipatanakul Y1 - 2016/04/01 UR - http://ebm.bmj.com/content/21/2/80.abstract N2 - Commentary on: Fall T, Lundholm C, Örtqvist AK, et al. Early Exposure to Dogs and Farm Animals and the Risk of Childhood Asthma. JAMA Pediatr 2015;169:e153219.Asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases of childhood. The risk of developing asthma is associated with environmental exposures, including tobacco smoke, air pollution, dust mites, endotoxin and farm animals.1 A lower prevalence of asthma among children in farm environments supports the hygiene hypothesis on the role of childhood exposure to microbes in developing a more favourable immune system. The effect of exposures to domestic dogs has been less clear. Fall et al undertook a nationwide study to investigate the association between early exposures to dogs as well as farm environment and risk of childhood … ER -