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Observational analysis reveals altered neonatal blood metabolomes following caesarean section, suggesting perturbed gut microbial colonization drives childhood asthma risk.
These findings propose that caesarean section programmes the risk of childhood asthma through perturbed immune responses and gut microbial colonisation patterns reflected in the blood metabolome at birth.
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