{"id":4719,"date":"2018-05-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/02\/living-near-livestock-farms-may-help-protect-against-atopy\/"},"modified":"2018-05-03T16:08:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T16:08:43","slug":"living-near-livestock-farms-may-help-protect-against-atopy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/02\/living-near-livestock-farms-may-help-protect-against-atopy\/","title":{"rendered":"Living Near Livestock Farms May Help Protect Against Atopy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Those living closest to farms have lower odds for atopy than those living farther away<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, May 2, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Living in close proximity to livestock farms may protect against atopy, according to a study published online April 30 in <i>Occupational &#038; Environmental Medicine<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Floor Borl\u00e9e, from Utrecht University in the Netherlands, and colleagues assessed 2,443 adults (aged 20 to 72 years) for atopy, defined as specific immunoglobulin E (IgE) to common allergens and\/or total IgE dIU\/mL, based on residential proximity to livestock farms.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that the prevalence of atopy was 29.8 percent. Those living closer to farms (<327 m; first tertile) had lower odds for atopy versus those living farther away (>527 m; third tertile) (odds ratio, 0.79). Significant associations in the same direction were seen in relation to distance from the nearest pig or cattle farm. For those who grew up on a farm, the associations between atopy and livestock farm exposure were somewhat stronger.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Living in close proximity to livestock farms seems to protect against atopy,&#8221; the authors write. &#8220;This study provides evidence that protective effects of early-life and adult farm exposures may extend beyond farming populations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oem.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2018\/03\/26\/oemed-2017-104769\" target=\"_new\">Abstract\/Full Text<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those living closest to farms have lower odds for atopy than those living farther away<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-4719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4743,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719\/revisions\/4743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}