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The Victims Of Carbon Pollution: Asthmatic Children
ThinkProgress But back in reality, carbon pollution poses very real dangers to the climate and public health, including inducing more asthma cases than ever. Last week, the Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council also rolled out a seven-figure ad showing … |
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Childhood Asthma On The Rise As Political Battles Threaten EPA's Air Pollution …
Huffington Post Asthma was once just an academic concern for Sylvia Brandt, who has spent years studying the chronic lung condition and calculating its tragic toll. Now, the threat is personal. "One night I woke up and my daughter was really struggling to breathe. |
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Smoky air can harm dogs and cats, too, says vets and pollution experts
San Jose Mercury News She estimated that as much as 10 percent of her cat patients have asthma — a condition aggravated by allergens, dust and smoke. She cautions anyone with asthmatic cats to keep their pets indoors on Spare the Air days, when smoke and other fine … |
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Asthma Rates And Costs Rise Due To Traffic Pollution
Medical News Today An international study of asthma, published in the early online version of the European Respiratory Journal, has for the first time, included the number of incidents caused by air pollution and shows that the costs for childhood asthma have risen … Asthma from traffic pollution underestimated, finds study Traffic-Related Air Pollution |
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Traffic-Related Air Pollution
Biomed Middle East By jamal, on January 27th, 2012 The total cost of asthma due to pollution is much higher than past traditional risk assessments have indicated and there is growing evidence that exposure to traffic-related air pollution is a cause of asthma and a … Asthma from traffic pollution underestimated, finds study |
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Warning over cost of asthma caused by traffic-related air pollution
EurekAlert (press release) The total cost of asthma due to traffic-related air pollution is much higher than previous estimates, according to new research. The study, published online ahead of print in the European Respiratory Journal, has revealed the true extent of the … |
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Cost of asthma caused by traffic-related air pollution rising
TruthDive Washington, Jan 26 (ANI): The total cost of asthma due to traffic-related air pollution is much higher than past traditional risk assessments have indicated, according to a new study. A team led by University of Massachusetts Amherst resource economist … Asthma rate and costs from traffic-related air pollution are much higher than … Asthma Rates Due to Traffic Related Air Pollution Are Higher Than Expected Study puts price tag on traffic pollution health costs |
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Asthma rate and costs from traffic-related air pollution are much higher than …
PhysOrg.com A research team led by University of Massachusetts Amherst resource economist Sylvia Brandt, with colleagues in California and Switzerland, have revised the cost burden sharply upward for childhood asthma and for the first time include the number of … Asthma Rates Due to Traffic Related Air Pollution Are Higher Than Expected Breaking Down the Cost of Asthma Asthma costs from air pollution costs Long Beach and Riverside $18 million a year |
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Air pollution is taking a higher toll than previously thought, especially in Long Beach and Riverside, CA Says New Study
According to published reports, researchers at USC’s Keck School of Medicine and the University of Massachusetts released a study Tuesday afternoon. They found that asthma caused by air pollution from cars is costing Long Beach and Riverside a combined $18 million a year.
According to the report, researchers looked at risk factors that hadn’t been examined before: things like school absences, lost wages of a parent who stays home with a sick child, and the number of doctor visits.
The report says asthma care devours on average up to 8 percent of a household’s income in those communities, and that’s above the 5 percent that’s considered to be affordable.
The researchers chose Long Beach and Riverside because of their high pollution levels, and because of the many large roads within them that run close to neighborhoods.
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Asthma costs from air pollution costs Long Beach and Riverside $18 million a year
89.3 KPCC A study finds traffic-related cases of asthma are costing the city. Air pollution is taking a higher toll than previously thought, especially in Long Beach and Riverside. Researchers at USC's Keck School of Medicine and the University of Massachusetts … |
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