Scientists have found gender differences in the prevalence of asthma in children

In childhood, boys are more prone to asthma than girls, but in adolescence, everything changes, and the girls can experience prolonged illness, while the boys will reduce the risk, and if it. An illness whose symptoms subside The reasons for this difference between the sexes found out by U.S. researchers. Immunologists at Harvard University observed the symptoms of asthma among thousands of children aged 5 to 12 years for nine years. Experts see gender differences in the onset and development of asthma. Scientists have found that boys and 16 years less in response to allergens, and they quickly got rid of the problems with breathing, while the girls develop through adolescence in the most severe forms of asthma. Doctors intrigued by the difference in the mechanism and the severity of asthma in children that occurs during puberty. Experts suggest that such changes due to the different development of the immune system as well as boys in childhood immune system vulnerable. To external stimuli, but by adolescence allergens less effect on the body In girls, the opposite is the case. In the near future doctors to find out whether this relationship depends on diet, lifestyle or genetic factors.