Sentences with phrase «more lung damaging»

It's not a fossil fuel, but it has worse emissions (less green house gas but more lung damaging smog) and it uses more fossil fuel in it's production that it gives back.

Not exact matches

For others, while you just cough more, it's probably damaging our lungs somehow.

«We found that in young healthy mice the immune system overreacted to the influenza virus, which led to more inflammation, greater lung damage and increased mortality compared to healthy adults exposed to the virus,» says lead author Bria Coates, MD, Critical Care physician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

She found that kids in Fresno were more likely to develop asthma not due to lung damage, but because changes on the surfaces of just two genes — and likely more — altered the way their lungs worked.

Because such transport often lacks catalytic converters and is poorly maintained, lightweight two - stroke gasoline - powered three - wheelers (also known as tuk - tuks and tricycles) cough up roughly 13 times more lung - damaging particulates than other engine types.

Radovitzky says this reasoning stems from studies of «blast lung» — blast - induced injuries such as tearing, hemorrhaging, and swelling of the lungs, where it was found that mass matters: The larger an animal is, the more resilient it may be to lung damage.

«The virus penetrates more deeply into the lungs of obese mice, and the animals seem to have a more difficult time repairing the damage,» Schultz - Cherry said.

«The introduction of mitochondria into damaged cells has beneficial effects on the health of cells and, in the long term, we believe that mesenchymal stem cells could even be engineered to create more effective therapies for lung disease in humans.»

Structural lung damage caused by induced asthma mimics the phenotype found in asthma patients more closely than does the induced damage in BALB / c mice.

«They have damaged lungs, so they are more susceptible to coming down with illnesses and developing pneumonias following them.»

Another more common example is cigarette smoke, which causes chronic inflammation in the lungs, producing oxidation (and free - radicals) and leads to DNA damage and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as well as lung cancer.6 A hallmark of both of these processes in the activation of nuclear factor - Kappa B (NF - KB), which is a protein complex that the body produces in response to inflammation, free radicals, cytokines, all hallmarks of stress.

Also consider a shower filter, because once these toxins found in your tap water are heated and become airborne in your shower, they cause more damage to your body through your skin and lungs than from drinking unfiltered water.

The lungs actually sustain the most damage from heartworms due to the irritation of the lining of the pulmonary blood vessels which will be discussed more in the following pages.

More importantly, the damage caused by plaque and gingivitis isn't limited to only teeth and gums, but can actually affect the entire body, leading to heart disease, diabetes, inflammation, kidney disease, bladder infection and lung disease.

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Ideally, use a short drinking straw to blow through since this is more hygienic and reduces the risk of damaging the kitten's lungs by over-inflation.

Symptoms in pets: Most cats develop immunity, but kittens are more vulnerable and can experience diarrhea or more serious problems, like lung, liver, or nervous system damage.

Even more awful is that potentially hundreds of these worms can grow in an untreated or unprotected dog, and this could eventually lead to lung disease, heart failure, other organ damage, and sometimes death.

«Gum inflammation and tooth loss can be very painful to your animals and costly to treat, but they also can lead to more serious conditions, including damage to the heart, lungs and kidneys.»

Yes, we should be doing things like finding ways to reduce lung damage from interior fires (I've heard this one specifically given as an argument to NOT put money in CO2 emmission reductions since millions of children are dying now exposed to interior smoke fires in developing countries, and the money would be more effective in providing gas cookers).

Hotter temperatures lead to more smog, which can damage lungs, and increases childhood asthma, respiratory and heart disease, and death,» the state attorney general's office cautions.