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Wheezing? Asthma screening May 15
Aitkin Independent Age May is Asthma Awareness Month, a time when people begin spending more time outdoors where pollen, mold, and other airborne substances can trigger asthma attacks. Riverwood Healthcare Center and the American College of Allergy, Asthma and … Many Children With Asthma Remain Undiagnosed |
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Asthma development tied to genetic makeup, wheezing illness
Healio All of the 200 children in the COAST cohort had at least one parent with asthma, respiratory allergies or both. The 297 Danish children in the COPSAC cohort were born to mothers with asthma. Both groups of children were evaluated for asthma from aged 6 … |
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Childhood asthma tied to combination of genes and wheezing illness
EurekAlert (press release) About 90 percent of children with two copies of a common genetic variation and who wheezed when they caught a cold early in life went on to develop asthma by age 6, according to a study to be published March 28 by the New England Journal of Medicine. |
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Wheezing While Sick Could Mean A Higher Risk Of Asthma In Kids
CBS Local PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Does your child wheeze when he's sick? If so, he could have a higher risk of asthma. “It makes sense that if someone has an inherited tendency to asthma, and also if they wheeze from infections, that both of those factors make them … |
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Genetic Variants and Wheezing Put Kids At Risk For Asthma
TIME Previous research found that wheezing-related illnesses can increase a child's risk for developing asthma, and other studies connected certain genetic factors to this heightened tendency to wheeze. In a new study published in the New England Journal of … Genes, Wheezing Tied to Childhood Asthma Risk Clues to Kids' Asthma Focus on Genes, Wheezing Childhood asthma tied to combination of genes and wheezing illness |
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Genes, Wheezing Tied to Childhood Asthma Risk
WebMD Researchers examined data from nearly 500 children and found that about 90 percent of those who had two copies of a common genetic variation and who also experienced wheezing when they had a cold early in life developed asthma by age 6. Childhood asthma tied to combination of genes and wheezing illness Clues to Kids' Asthma Focus on Genes, Wheezing Genetic Variant Boosts Asthma Risk in Children With HRV |
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Genes and Early Wheezing Tied to Childhood Asthma Risk
U.S. News & World Report These children, all from families with a history of asthma or allergies, were nearly four times more likely to develop asthma than those who did not have the genetic variation and did not wheeze, according the study in the March 28 issue of the New … |
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It's 'wheezing season' for asthma patients!
Chicago Tribune But if a child wheezes on several occasions and responds to bronchodilators, the youngster probably has asthma. If you throw in a family history of wheezing, as well as wheezing that begins every time a child gets a cold, it's time to discuss the … |
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Maternal Obesity Increases Risk Of Wheezing In Babies And Possibly Asthma
Albany Tribune Researchers from the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL) assessed whether obesity in mothers increases the risk of their children having frequent wheezing, a symptom associated with susceptibility to asthma during infancy that … |
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Smoking During Pregnancy May Cause Asthma, Wheezing in Kids
Philadelphia Inquirer FRIDAY, Aug. 17 (HealthDay News) — New research from Sweden suggests that smoking during early pregnancy may boost the risk that preschool children will develop asthma and wheezing problems, even if the kids aren't exposed to smoke after birth. Mothers Who Smoke While Pregnant Increase Their Baby's Risk Of Asthma Pregnant mothers who smoke are 65 per cent more likely to have children with … Smoking mothers could be giving their children asthma |
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