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Menopausal women at greater risk for asthma hospitalization
Science Daily (press release) Sep. 3, 2013 — Asthma is a disease that mostly affects young boys and adult women. And according to a new study, women in their 40s and 50s with asthma are hospitalized more than twice as often as men in the same age group. The 10-year study is … |
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Menopausal women at greater risk for asthma hospitalization
Medical Xpress Asthma is a disease that mostly affects young boys and adult women. And according to a new study, women in their 40s and 50s with asthma are hospitalized more than twice as often as men in the same age group. The 10-year study is published in the … Study reports rates more than twice that of men in same age group Bee, wasp sting deaths on the rise |
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Greater Cleveland ranks poorly as place to live with asthma | cleveland.com
Plain Dealer The Foundation has been ranking metropolitan areas for the past 10 years by assessing asthma prevalence, environmental risks and patient medical utilization rates. The study used a three-point scale to rank each of the 13 factors — "worse than average … |
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Greater Cleveland ranks poorly as place to live with asthma
Plain Dealer The Foundation has been ranking metropolitan areas for the past 10 years by assessing asthma prevalence, environmental risks and patient medical utilization rates. The study used a three-point scale to rank each of the 13 factors — "worse than average … |
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COPD-asthma overlap 'needs greater recognition' – from News-Medical.Net
News-Medical.net The authors found that patients with overlap COPD-asthma were more likely to be women (55.2 vs 24.2%), to never have smoked (56.7 vs 19.5%), and have a significantly higher body mass index (29.1 vs 27.8 kg/m2) than non-overlap patients. However … |
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 Telegraph.co.uk |
Jobs identified that are linked to greater risk of asthma in adults
Telegraph.co.uk Comments. Almost 10,000 people born in Britain in 1958 were tracked for 15 years and researchers were able to identify which jobs were linked with an increased risk of developing asthma as an adult. It was found that the workplace had a greater … |
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 Business Insider |
Smacking Children May Put Them At Greater Risk Of Developing Cancer [Study]
Business Insider Smacking children may put them at greater risk of cancer, heart disease and asthma later in life, a controversial study has suggested. Psychologists asked adults with the diseases if they had been verbally or physically abused as children and found … Smacking or shouting at your children 'raises their risk of cancer, heart … Children raised with corporal punishment at greater risk of developing cancer … Corporal punishment can lead to health risks |
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 ThirdAge |
Older People with Asthma Run Greater Risks
ThirdAge Those symptoms are chillingly familiar for the 25 million Americans with asthma, an inflammatory disease of the breathing passages of the lungs, but they also are particularly dangerous for older sufferers who are more likely to die as a result of the … |
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Older people with asthma run greater risks
MiamiHerald.com A recently published study found that the death rate for 65-and-over asthmatics is 14 times higher than for patients 18 to 35. With 50 Percent of Childhood Asthma Uncontrolled, Time to Look Homeward |
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Asthma problems greater in metro than in rural areas
Minneapolis Star Tribune Residents of the Twin Cities metro area are more likely to wind up in the hospital for problems related to asthma than people in rural areas, according to a new … |
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