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Kids' asthma rates quiet down after earlier increase: Study
Chico Enterprise-Record Childhood asthma rates doubled from 1980 to 1995, partly because of more awareness and diagnosis. The new study shows slower increases after that, rising to 9.3 by 2010. Declines in the most recent years were in children younger than 5, Mexican kids, … |
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Motor-vehicle pollution could be major factor in childhood asthma
Chico News & Review The scientists found that for each five-part-per-billion increase of nitrogen dioxide (a component of motor-vehicle pollution) participants were exposed to during their first year of life, their chance of developing asthma later in life increased by 17 … |
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Asthma linked to NO2
Chico News & Review The scientists found that for each five-part-per-billion increase of nitrogen dioxide (a component of motor-vehicle pollution) participants were exposed to during their first year of life, their chance of developing asthma later in life increased by 17 … |
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Roaches linked to asthma
Chico News & Review A link between asthma and living in a home with cockroaches could partially explain why children in low-income housing are disproportionately affected by the respiratory disease. Though researchers can't say roaches and asthma are directly related, … |
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BPA, childhood asthma linked
Chico News & Review The chemical bisphenol A (BPA), commonly used in household plastics, has been linked to childhood asthma, according to a new study. A Columbia University research team tested 568 children and their mothers in New York City, finding that children with … |
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Imperial County kids suffer highest asthma rate
Chico News & Review Severe asthma is a problem for children elsewhere in California—particularly in heavily agricultural Central Valley cities like Fresno, Bakersfield and Merced—but Imperial County is far and away the worst for hospitalizations and ER visits. One in … |
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Confessions of an asthmatic
Chico News & Review Hello, my name is Evan, and I'm an asthmatic. It's been three hours since my last hit on an inhaler and my last dose of antihistamines. Asthma has long been my secret. Even after working at the CN&R for more than three years, … |
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