NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Parents with major depression or panic disorder are more likely to have children with asthma and other allergy-based conditions, according to study findings published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine. The fact that the association held only for biological children supports the idea of a “shared genetic liability."Dr. Ramin Mojtabai, from Columbia University, in New York, assessed the link between childhood allergy disorders and parental major depression, generalized anxiety disorder, and panic attacks in a sample of 9,240 parent-child pairs drawn from the 1999 US National Health Interview Survey.
