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Traffic Proximity Linked to Adult Asthma
Family Practice News Digital Network ORLANDO – High levels of traffic-exhaust exposure at home were linked with an increased risk for asthma or worsening asthma in adults, according to results from two separate, US studies reported at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, … Allergy week: Don't forget your meds! Free asthma screenings |
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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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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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Air traffic pollution impacts growth and development of unborn children
News-Medical.net A UK academic is calling for a nationwide study into the effects traffic pollution has on asthma sufferers after his own research in Cairo highlighted health problems in children who may even be affected while still in the womb. … |
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'Dusty' Brickfields traffic worsens asthma
Malay Mail Sixty-year-old retiree MEHRUNISSA GULAM HUSSAIN suffers from asthma and says her condition has been worsened by the one-way traffic in front of her house in Palm Court. "The dust from the traffic enters my balcony which faces the street," she tells … |
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Study ties road traffic to asthma and allergies incidence
Sydney Morning Herald Teenagers living close to a busy road are more likely to have allergies and asthma than those living farther from traffic, a study of one shantytown in Peru … |
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Road traffic tied to poverty-stricken kids' asthma
Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Teenagers living close to a busy road are more likely to have allergies and asthma than those living farther from … |
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Doctor, doctor: Is traffic giving me chest problems?
The Guardian Several relatives have asthma, and I am sometimes wheezy, too, though not severely. I live in a city with lots of traffic passing my door day and night. … |
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Adult asthma and traffic exposure at residential address, workplace address …
7thSpace Interactive (press release) The aim was to investigate 1) if there is an association between traffic exposure and prevalence of adult asthma and asthma symptoms, and 2) if so, … |
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Traffic fumes trigger asthma in children
Wagin Argus CHILDREN aged four and under are most at risk of asthma attacks from traffic-related air pollution, according to a researcher at the University of WA (UWA). … |
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