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How Do You Outgrow Asthma?
Boys are more likely than girls to outgrow their childhood asthma, a new study has found. Researchers in Boston studied more than 1,000 children for almost a decade. They found that by age 18, 27 percent of the boys did not show signs of asthma, while only 14 percent of the girls had outgrown the disease. Researchers say that hormones that begin production at puberty may help explain the gender gap when it comes to asthma.
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