Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học 'Respiratory Research cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài:" Diet and asthma: looking back, moving forward. | Respiratory Research BioMed Central Review Diet and asthma looking back moving forward June-Ho Kim 1 Philippa E Ellwood2 and M Innes Asher 2 Open Access Address Department of Cancer Immunology AIDS Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Boston Massachusetts USA and 2Department of Paediatrics Child and Youth Health The University of Auckland New Zealand Email June-Ho Kim - Philippa E Ellwood - M Innes Asher - Corresponding authors Published 12 June 2009 Received 27 April 2009 Respiratory Research 2009 10 49 doi 1465-9921-10-49 Accepted 12 June 2009 This article is available from http content 10 1 49 2009 Kim et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Asthma is an increasing global health burden especially in the western world. Public health interventions are sought to lessen its prevalence or severity and diet and nutrition have been identified as potential factors. With rapid changes in diet being one of the hallmarks of westernization nutrition may play a key role in affecting the complex genetics and developmental pathophysiology of asthma. The present review investigates hypotheses about hygiene antioxidants lipids and other nutrients food types and dietary patterns breastfeeding probiotics and intestinal microbiota vitamin D maternal diet and genetics. Early hypotheses analyzed population level trends and focused on major dietary factors such as antioxidants and lipids. More recently larger dietary patterns beyond individual nutrients have been investigated such as obesity fast foods and the Mediterranean diet. Despite some promising hypotheses and findings there has been no conclusive evidence about .