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Dr. Fernando Holguin, at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and colleagues studied 85 asthmatic children, ages 7 to 12, living in Mexico City, where traffic-related air pollution is usually very high, 53 of whom had mild intermittent asthma, 20 mild persistent asthma, and 12 moderate persistent asthma, to determine whether outdoor air pollution had any impact on how well their rescue inhalers worked.
Click here for more research on possible treatments for asthma First Published December 2009 12/09 |