Sentences with phrase «asthma visits to the emergency room»

The researchers found that as certain air quality measures worsened, asthma visits to the emergency room went up.

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After adjusting their findings to account for differences in race and ethnicity, sex, age, poverty level, education and urban density of the children's neighborhoods, Keet and her team found that for each microgram / cubic meter increase in coarse particulate matter, asthma diagnosis increased by 0.6 percent, emergency room visits for asthma by 1.7 percent and hospitalizations for asthma by 2.3 percent.

«The study reports asthma related emergency room visits are estimated to be 55 percent lower in people with asthma who use dose counting inhalers than in those who use inhalers without dose counters,» said allergist Allen Meadows, MD, ACAAI fellow and chair of the Public Education Committee.

By analyzing tweets and air quality information together, Ram and her collaborators were able to use machine learning algorithms to predict with 75 percent accuracy whether the emergency room could expect a low, medium or high number of asthma - related visits on a given day.

Ram and her collaborators — including Wenli Zhang, a UA doctoral student in management information systems, and researchers from the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation — created a model that was able to successfully predict approximately how many asthma sufferers would visit the emergency room at a large hospital in Dallas on a given day, based on an analysis of data gleaned from electronic medical records, air quality sensors and Twitter.

In April this year, Obama made the case personal when he told ABC News that his daughter Malia suffered an asthma attack when she was 4, leading to an emergency room visit.

For each emergency room visit to treat Baltimore residents for asthma, according to the data, hospitals were paid $ 871, on average.

A UA - led team of researchers created a model that was able to predict with 75 percent accuracy how many asthma - related emergency room visits a hospital could expect on a given day.

Children were assessed for asthma symptoms — including but not limited to cough without a cold, inability to speak full sentences due to asthma and disrupted sleep — asthma - related health care use (acute care visits, emergency room visits or hospitalizations in three months prior to each assessment), asthma medication use and maximal symptoms days, defined as the highest number of days that the child had three different types of asthma symptoms in the two weeks prior to the visit or phone call.

Asthma visits in primary care settings, emergency room visits, and hospitalizations were all stable from 2001 to 2009, and asthma death rates per 1,000 persons with asthma declined from 2001 to 2009.158 To the extent that increased pollen exposures occur, patients and their physicians will face increased challenges in maintaining adequate asthma coAsthma visits in primary care settings, emergency room visits, and hospitalizations were all stable from 2001 to 2009, and asthma death rates per 1,000 persons with asthma declined from 2001 to 2009.158 To the extent that increased pollen exposures occur, patients and their physicians will face increased challenges in maintaining adequate asthma controto 2009, and asthma death rates per 1,000 persons with asthma declined from 2001 to 2009.158 To the extent that increased pollen exposures occur, patients and their physicians will face increased challenges in maintaining adequate asthma coasthma death rates per 1,000 persons with asthma declined from 2001 to 2009.158 To the extent that increased pollen exposures occur, patients and their physicians will face increased challenges in maintaining adequate asthma coasthma declined from 2001 to 2009.158 To the extent that increased pollen exposures occur, patients and their physicians will face increased challenges in maintaining adequate asthma controto 2009.158 To the extent that increased pollen exposures occur, patients and their physicians will face increased challenges in maintaining adequate asthma controTo the extent that increased pollen exposures occur, patients and their physicians will face increased challenges in maintaining adequate asthma coasthma control.

In addition to our comprehensive asthma clinic, we also offer a specialized Children's Asthma Wellness Program, designed for children who have had repeat emergency department visits for asthma, with a focus on supporting the patient's family and the primary care provider in managing the child's asthma in decreasing emergency room visits and hospitalizaasthma clinic, we also offer a specialized Children's Asthma Wellness Program, designed for children who have had repeat emergency department visits for asthma, with a focus on supporting the patient's family and the primary care provider in managing the child's asthma in decreasing emergency room visits and hospitalizaAsthma Wellness Program, designed for children who have had repeat emergency department visits for asthma, with a focus on supporting the patient's family and the primary care provider in managing the child's asthma in decreasing emergency room visits and hospitalizaasthma, with a focus on supporting the patient's family and the primary care provider in managing the child's asthma in decreasing emergency room visits and hospitalizaasthma in decreasing emergency room visits and hospitalizations.

In fact, a Harvard study linked more than 40 premature deaths, 550 emergency room visits and 2,800 asthma attacks every year to the toxic emissions from the two plants, with children being the most vulnerable to the plants» pollution.

Weatherization programs decrease emergency - room visits, prevent missed school and work days, reduce asthma symptoms, prevent climate change, and offer many other values that Greenstone didn't attempt to quantify.

Climate mitigation through energy efficiency in the residential and commercial sectors will improve local and regional air quality, particularly in large cities, contributing to improved public health (e.g., increased life expectancy, reduced emergency room visits, reduced asthma attacks, fewer lost working days) and avoidance of structural damage to buildings and public works.

Aircraft contribute a variety of pollutants to the environment — exacerbating asthma, lung disease and emergency room visits even among healthy people.

The Clean Air Task Force estimates that pollution from Navajo Generating Station contributes to 16 premature deaths, 25 heart attacks, 300 asthma attacks, and 15 asthma emergency room visits each year, with total annual health costs of more than $ 127 million.