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Asthmatics May Be At Risk for Lung Disease In The Future

...sure to risk factors such as tobacco smoke and air pollution may delay disease progression to COPD. Some specialists also suggest that effective anti-inflammatory therapy at the onset of asthma may decrease the likelihood of developing COPD....

Air Pollution said To Increase Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

...archers say, though common sense would suggest air pollution leads to respiratory-related deaths rather than ca...be the case. The researchers aren’t sure how air pollution increases the risk for cardiovascular disease, but suspect it may lead to inflammation, and thus gre...

Air Pollution Tied to Stroke Risk

New research shows high air pollution levels may make people more susceptible to suffering a stroke.In previous research, air pollution levels have been connected to daily death rates for respiratory //problems and heart disease. But re...

Traffic pollution linked to severe asthma attacks

Asthmatic children exposed to traffic pollution before getting a viral infection have more serious...olds, the flu, cigarette smoke, pollen, stress and pollution can trigger an asthma attack. There is no cure for asthma but it can be controlled with drugs....

Mental growth in babies at risk

...anguage learning disorders. With increase in noise pollution in societies, the hearing center of a baby's sensitive developing brain could be damaged. In an experiment conducted on young rats, the hearing center, or auditory cortex, in a growing rat's brain undergoes swift and radical reorganisation// when sub...

Air pollution combined with greater medical needs

Cities with the worst pollution in the US have more hospital admissions for respir...s increasing proof for a tie between environmental pollution and public health. Now doctors at the University of California report upon the effect// of air pollu...

Clean air protects lives

...ands observed the link between traffic-related air pollution and death. Between 1984 and 1995, they studied 4,500 people and found 15 percent of the study population died during the follow-up. Of those, people who lived near a main road were twice as likely to die from problems with their heart or lungs. Both...

Air Pollution and Heart Attacks

According to a new report high levels of air pollution can trigger a heart attack within two hours of exp...or a heart attack, even in the absence of this air pollution association, to try to avoid excessive exposure to outdoor air on those days when the air quality is...

Air pollution hits heart patients during exercise

Atmospheric pollution affects the normal breathing functions. Exposure to atmospheric pollution causes decreased oxygen supply to the heart muscle during exercise in those with heart problems. The...

Elevated Ozone Levels Hurt Sperm Count

...infertile." "It just suggests that exposure to air pollution is not good for sperm." It's not the ozone, per se, that is causing the damage, Sokol added. Ozone, once inhaled, is rapidly metabolized. Ozone may trigger an inflammatory reaction, she speculates, which in turn adversely affects the sperm. Accordi...

How to avoid a bad hair day

...ses - from dyeing and blow drying to environmental pollution and sun exposure. Ideally, you'd pay as much attention to your hair as you do to your skin - even though it's dead tissue and cannot, for instance, develop cancer like your skin can. The best way to treat damaged cuticle - aside from avoiding the c...

Reducing Lung Cancer Risk

...so with assessing the lesser effects of indoor air pollution of some houses. Because there had been wide-spread cessation of smoking, the 1990 study was able to assess the long-term effects of giving up the habit at various ages. Former smokers, on the other hand, had only a small number of lung cancer cases ...

Air pollution may raise risk of lung cancer

...e increased cancer risk from breathing particulate pollution is only a tiny fraction of the increased risk from...search because it addresses criticisms of past air pollution studies, including a lack of adequate follow-up. "What makes this study significant is that it inv...

Particulate matter affects lung development

...r communities in the West.Resulting changes in air pollution exposure, on average, affected annual rates of lun...s study confirms our earlier work showing that air pollution can have long-term effects on lung health in children. It also shows that cleaning up the air actual...

Pollution- hazardous for diabetics

Particulate pollution raises the risk of heart problems for diabetic pat...doubled when you have diabetes. It's possible that pollution exposure and diabetes affect the same pathways to heart disease and when both are present the risk i...

Pollution could be a risk

...nd it would not just be Inhaling tiny particles of pollution could trigger a heart attack within two hours, sug... those who had experienced a higher level of small pollution particles called PM2.5s in the two hours before the attack. These fine particles are mainly produced...

Air pollution affects the heart

Air pollution is known for its adverse effects on the heart amon...University now reveals that the adverse effects of pollution may affect everyone and not only older people.// They studied the impact of particles called PM2.5s ...

New Drug for Bronchial Asthma

...xt? Well, first we can try by ridding ourselves of pollution and other noxious stimulants....

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