Neonatal metabolome of cesarean section and risk of childhood asthma.
Gözde GürdenizMadeleine ErnstDaniela RagoMin KimJulie CourraudJakob StokholmKlaus BønnelykkeAnders BjörkbomUrvish TrivediSøren J SørensenSusanne B PedersenDavid HougaardMorten RasmussenArieh S CohenHans BisgaardBo ChawesPublished in: The European respiratory journal (2021)
These findings propose that CS is programming the risk of childhood asthma through perturbed immune responses and gut microbial colonization patterns reflected in the blood metabolome at birth.