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Asthma Rates Similar Among Black Children in Urban, Rural Areas: Study
U.S. News & World Report THURSDAY, April 9, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Asthma rates are essentially identical among black children living in Detroit and rural Georgia, researchers report. The finding challenges the common belief that living in a city boosts the chances of … |
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Medical Xpress |
Asthma rates among black youth are similarly high in urban, rural communities
Medical Xpress About 15 percent of Detroit's black inner city youth have diagnosed asthma and another 8 percent undiagnosed disease, according to a study in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Rates are 13.7 percent and 7.5 percent, respectively, in rural … |
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Fox News |
Pool Chemicals May Explain Higher Rates Of Asthma Among Endurance …
Huffington Post A long-term study would help distinguish "between athletes with asthma who self-select to swimming and those who have asthma as a result of exposure to endurance training practices," said lead author Dr. Margo Mountjoy of McMaster University Waterloo … Asthma very common among Olympic-level swimmers |
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Fox News |
Asthma very common among Olympic-level swimmers
Fox News Swimmers, especially endurance swimmers, are more likely than other water sport competitors to have asthma, according to a new study of Olympic athletes. Researchers found that about a quarter of competitors in swimming events had verified asthma, … |
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Asthma very common among Olympic-level swimmers
Reuters A long-term study would help distinguish “between athletes with asthma who self-select to swimming and those who have asthma as a result of exposure to endurance training practices,” said lead author Dr. Margo Mountjoy of McMaster University Waterloo … |
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Treatment of acute asthma among pregnant women improves over 17-year period
Healio “On the basis of four observational studies of pregnant women with acute asthma in 48 EDs, we found a significant increase in the ED administration of systemic corticosteroids and prescription of systemic corticosteroids at ED discharge over the 17 … |
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Lung Disease News |
Vitamin D Levels Found To Be Lower Among Asthmatic Adolescents
Lung Disease News According to a recent study led by Ourania Kolokotroni from the Cyprus International Institute for Environmental & Public Health in association with Harvard School of Public Health, Cyprus University of Technology, asthmatic young people have lower … |
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In the News: Study finds asthma rife among elite athletes
velonews.competitor.com The Guardian reports that a new study finds that 70 percent of top UK swimmers and third of Team Sky cyclists suffer from some form of asthma, especially exercise-induced asthma. It's not unknown for elite athletes to have asthma — marathoner Paula … Asthma rife among elite athletes, finds study |
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Asthma rife among elite athletes, finds study
The Guardian It's not unknown for elite sports people to have asthma – Paula Radcliffe and Paul Scholes are among well-known British examples – but the good news for wheezy children wistfully dreaming of a sporting career is that research is increasingly uncovering … |
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Survey reveals extent of asthma problem among Meriden children
Meriden Record-Journal MERIDEN — As revealed by a recent survey, the high number of children with asthma living in the downtown area, although alarming, was not totally surprising, city health officials said Thursday. “It certainly calls for more action, parsing more data … |
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