Asthma is a chronic lung disease that can cause narrowing and inflammation of the airways, which makes it difficult to ...

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"In particular, the third week of September is what we call Asthma peak week. And that's when emergency room visits and ...

Day care, children Early child care attendance increased the risk for wheeze in children ≤2 years of age but decreased the risk for asthma in children 3 to 5 years of age. Early child care attendance ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Children exposed to higher levels of air pollution are at an increased risk for developing asthma and persistent ...

Conclusion Asthma is the most common chronic childhood condition. But not all that wheezes is asthma. Try to make a diagnosis with objective measurements of airflow. Remember that treatment of the ...

Ozone exposure in the first years of life correlated with a higher likelihood of asthma and wheeze at age 4 to 6. Ozone represents the criteria air pollutant most commonly exceeded among U.S. children ...

Asthma is a chronic respiratory condition marked by airway inflammation, narrowing, and episodes of wheezing, coughing, and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers found heightened odds for asthma and wheeze at age 4 to 6 years as ozone between birth and age 2 ...

February 26, 2007 (San Diego) — Infants who wheeze when they are infected with rhinovirus are more likely to have a diagnosis of asthma by the time they are 6 years old, according to investigators who ...

—UK investigators demonstrated that dog ownership during the first year of life attenuates asthma risk via the 17q12-21 gene locus. Share on Facebook. Opens in a new tab or window Share on X. Opens in ...

Young children may be at increased risk of wheeze and asthma if their mothers smoke during pregnancy, finds research in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. This held true irrespective of the effects ...