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Childhood Asthma And Autism Linked To Air Pollution: Children And Fetuses …
Medical Daily Asthma is a reversible obstructive lung disease that causes wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness, and coughing. Asthma can be life-threatening when improperly managed. It is a chronic inflammatory condition and is caused by increased reaction of … |
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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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Can Air Pollution Cause Asthma in Kids? How About Autism?
KQED (blog) A study led by UCSF found that African American and Latino infants living in communities with high automobile exhaust are more likely to develop childhood asthma than those living with less pollution. This is significant because minority communities … |
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Early-Life Air Pollution Strongly Linked To Asthma Development In Minority …
Medical Daily A new study looked at the causal relationship between air pollution and childhood asthma. Air pollution exposure prior to the development of asthma was noted in order for researchers to definitively determine a difference in a child's asthma condition. |
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Early-life Air Pollution Linked with Childhood Asthma in Minorities, in Study
UCSF News Services A research team led by UC San Francisco 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 Latinos. |
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Early-life air pollution linked with childhood asthma in minorities, in study
EurekAlert (press release) 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 Latinos. |
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Early-life air pollution linked with childhood asthma in minorities, in study
Science Codex 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 Latinos. |
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Study links air pollution to childhood asthma in minorities
Los Angeles Times Researchers are also studying whether the pollutants actually cause childhood asthma. "This work adds to the growing body of evidence that traffic-related pollutants may be causally related to childhood asthma," said Esteban G. Burchard, a UCSF … Early-Life Air Pollution Linked With Childhood Asthma in Minorities |
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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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Traffic Pollution Associated with Increased Asthma Severity in Pregnant Women
Pharmacy Times Increased levels of nitrogen dioxide and elemental carbon released in the atmosphere as a result of traffic pollution were found to adversely affect asthma severity in pregnant women, according to a new study presented at the 2013 American Thoracic … Asthma Impacts Kids' Sleep, Grades |
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