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Early-Life Air Pollution Linked With Childhood Asthma in Minorities
Science Daily (press release) June 18, 2013 — A research team led by UCSF scientists has found that exposure in infancy to nitrogen dioxide (NO2), a component of motor vehicle air pollution, is strongly linked with later development of childhood asthma among African Americans and … |
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Inflammatory phenotypes underlying uncontrolled childhood asthma despite …
7thSpace Interactive (press release) The diagnosis of childhood asthma covers a broad spectrum of pathological mechanisms that can lead to similarly presenting clinical symptoms, but may nonetheless require different treatment approaches. Distinct underlying inflammatory patterns are … |
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Childhood asthma and allergies in urban, semiurban, and rural residential sectors in chile.
ScientificWorldJournal. 2013;2013:937935
Authors: Kausel L, Boneberger A, Calvo M, Radon K
Abstract
While rural living protects from asthma and allergies in many countries, results are conflicting in Latin America. We studied the prevalence of asthma and asthma symptoms in children from urban, semiurban, and rural sectors in south Chile. A cross-sectional questionnaire study was conducted in semiurban and rural sectors in the province of Valdivia (n = 559) using the ISAAC (International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood) questionnaire. Results were compared to prevalence in urban Valdivia (n = 3105) by using data from ISAAC III study. Odds ratios (+95% confidence intervals) were calculated. No statistical significant differences were found for asthma ever and eczema symptoms stratified by residential sector, but a gradient could be shown for current asthma and rhinoconjunctivitis symptoms with urban living having highest and rural living having lowest prevalence. Rural living was inversely associated in a statistical significant way with current asthma (OR: 0.4; 95% CI: 0.2-0.9) and rhinoconjunctivitis symptoms (OR: 0.3; 95% CI: 0.2-0.7) in logistic regression analyses. Rural living seems to protect from asthma and respiratory allergies also in Chile, a South American country facing epidemiological transition. These data would be improved by clinical studies of allergic symptoms observed in studied sectors.
PMID: 23766726 [PubMed – in process]
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Health Alert: Childhood Asthma
WDTV The past few weeks on Health Alert we have explored the topic of asthma and we have touch on asthma in children but I want to explore this disease even further, so tell me how is asthma diagnosed in children? The Centers for Disease Control states that … |
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Childhood Asthma Raises Risk for Adult Sleep Apnea
Medscape PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — Asthma, especially if it begins in childhood, raises the risk for sleep apnea years later, a new study shows. However, the severity of the obstructive sleep apnea is no different in patients with or without asthma … |
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Common Childhood Asthma Not Rooted in Allergens, Inflammation
Science Daily (press release) May 23, 2013 — Little is known about why asthma develops, how it constricts the airway or why response to treatments varies between patients. Now, a team of researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College, Columbia University Medical Center and SUNY … |
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Researchers find common childhood asthma unconnected to allergens or …
Medical Xpress Little is known about why asthma develops, how it constricts the airway or why response to treatments varies between patients. Now, a team of researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College, Columbia University Medical Center and SUNY Downstate Medical … |
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Researchers find common childhood asthma unconnected to allergens or …
EurekAlert (press release) NEW YORK (May 23, 2013) — Little is known about why asthma develops, how it constricts the airway or why response to treatments varies between patients. Now, a team of researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College, Columbia University Medical Center … |
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Cleaner air will help reduce childhood asthma – Independent Record
Helena Independent Record The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a healthy air standard that would prevent tens of thousands of asthma attacks by cleaning up gasoline and emissions from cars and light trucks. Predictably, Big Oil has already declared the public … Traffic-related pollutants exacerbate asthma in pregnant women A Look Toward Dangerous Summer Air with Asthma Awareness Month |
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Childhood respiratory infections rather than analgesics usage linked to risk …
News-Medical.net A new study conducted by Boston researchers reports that the link between asthma and early childhood use of acetaminophen or ibuprofen may be driven by underlying respiratory infections that prompt the use of these analgesics, rather than the drugs … |
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