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TIME Celebrates Che For Not Letting Asthma Deter His Murderous Ambitions
The Libertarian Republic Che Guevara might have considered the United States his worst enemy, but he faced an even greater threat to his revolutionary ambitions: asthma. While it was U.S.-trained Bolivian forces who killed Che on this day, Oct. 9, in 1967, asthma was a … |
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Time Celebrates 'How Che Guevara Didn't Let Asthma Affect His Ambitions'
NewsBusters (blog) Latson led her article, titled "How Che Guevara Didn't Let Asthma Affect His Ambitions," with her "even greater threat to his revolutionary ambitions" line about the leftist's asthma, and noted that "asthma was a constant threat from his earliest youth. How Che Guevara Didn't Let Asthma Affect His Ambitions |
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How Che Guevara Didn't Let Asthma Affect His Ambitions
TIME Che Guevara might have considered the United States his worst enemy, but he faced an even greater threat to his revolutionary ambitions: asthma. While it was U.S.-trained Bolivian forces who killed Che on this day, Oct. 9, in 1967, asthma was a … |
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Grandma's Smoking Habit Might Be Why You Have Asthma
TIME Got asthma? It might be your grandmother's fault. A study presented Tuesday by the European Lung Foundation finds that children with grandmothers who smoked during pregnancy have an increased risk of asthma—even when their mothers did not smoke. Grandmothers Who Smoke Cigarettes During Pregnancy May Increase Asthma Risk In … Kids May Be More Likely to Get Asthma if Grandma Smoked While Pregnant: Study Grandmother's smoking habits increase asthma risk in grandchildren European … |
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Time for a new language for asthma control: results from REALISE Asia
Dove Medical Press Purpose: Asthma is a global health problem, and asthma prevalence in Asia is increasing. The REcognise Asthma and LInk to Symptoms and Experience Asia study assessed patients' perception of asthma control and attitudes toward treatment in an … |
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IT'S TIME TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL WITH BETTER ASTHMA MANAGEMENT
ReadMedia (press release) DETROIT, MI (08/12/2015)(readMedia)– For the close to 7 million children living with asthma, gearing up for another school year involves much more than picking out a new pencil case and backpack. Asthma is the third leading cause of hospitalization … |
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This Is the Healthiest Month to Be Born In, According to Science
TIME Scientists at Columbia University used an algorithm to identify “significant associations” between the time a year a person is born and 55 diseases, including ADHD, asthma and heart disease. The new study, which was published in the Journal of American … Birth month and health linked by Big Data Birth Month May Indeed Help Predict Disease Risk |
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The Connection Between Peanut Allergies and Asthma
TIME A new study suggests that kids with asthma may have a peanut allergy, or be sensitive to peanuts, and not know it. Dr. Robert Cohn, medical director of Pulmonary Medicine at Dayton Children's Hospital and his team studied 1,517 children who went to a … Public Release: 17-May-2015 Many children with asthma have reaction to … Asthma Symptoms in Children May Be a Sign of Peanut Allergies Understanding asthma |
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The association between asthma and rhinitis is stable over time despite diverging trends in prevalence.
Respir Med. 2015 Jan 21;
Authors: Bjerg A, Eriksson J, Ólafsdóttir IS, Middelveld R, Franklin K, Forsberg B, Larsson K, Torén K, Dahlén SE, Janson C
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Despite the well-known association between asthma and rhinitis, in Swedish adults the prevalence of rhinitis rose from 22% to 31% between 1990 and 2008 while asthma prevalence was unchanged. We tested whether the association of rhinitis with asthma was stable over time using the same population-based databases.
METHODS: Two surveys of adults (20-44 years) living in three regions of Sweden, carried out in 1990 (n = 8982) and 2008 (n = 9156) were compared. Identical questions regarding respiratory symptoms, asthma and rhinitis were used. Asthmatic wheeze: Wheeze with breathlessness apart from colds. Current asthma: Asthma attacks and/or asthma medication use.
RESULTS: Subjects with rhinitis had level time trends in asthmatic wheeze, current asthma and most nocturnal respiratory symptoms between 1990 and 2008, adjusted for age, sex, area and smoking. Any wheeze however decreased slightly. In never-smokers asthma symptoms were similarly associated with rhinitis in 1990 and 2008: any wheeze OR 4.0 vs. 4.4 (p = 0.339); asthmatic wheeze OR 6.0 vs. 5.9 (p = 0.937); and current asthma OR 9.6 vs. 7.7 (p = 0.213). In the whole population there were decreases in the asthma symptoms most closely associated to smoking, which decreased by half 1990-2008. Conversely current asthma, which was strongly associated with rhinitis and not with smoking, increased (p < 0.001).
CONCLUSIONS: The association of rhinitis with asthma was stable between 1990 and 2008. The pattern in the time trends of asthma outcomes strongly suggests that decreased smoking counterbalanced the driving effect of increased rhinitis on asthma prevalence. The findings illustrate the public health benefits of decreased smoking.
PMID: 25638411 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher]
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Study Questions Link Between Asthma and City Living
TIME That's why a new study, published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, is so surprising. The findings, which come from a study of 23,000 U.S. children, show that income and race are much greater risk factors for asthma than where a child … The City Might Not Be To Blame For High Asthma Rates Researchers debunk the idea that asthma is more common in inner cities Inner-City Asthma Risk Overrated? |
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