Sentences with phrase «percent as asthma»
Alcoholism is about 60 percent genetic and biological — that's about the same percent as asthma or high blood pressure.
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Subsequently, the Clean Air Task Force of the DEC reports that since this time, illnesses such as asthma, bronchitis, heart attacks, hospital visits, and death related to these pollutants have decreased statewide by 87 percent.
Young children who faced multiple adverse experiences also were 15 percent more likely to develop severe depression by their preteen and early teen years and 25 percent more likely to have physical health problems, such as asthma and gastrointestinal disorders.
Researchers see this as a possible explanation for hayfever, which is strongly associated with pollen sensitization, having increased from 22 percent to 31 percent in Sweden, between 1990 - 2008, while the incidence of asthma, that is strongly associated with furred animals and mite sensitization, remained unchanged for the same period.
Looking at hospital admission data from 12 major cities, including Dublin, London, Barcelona, and Rome, they found that for every 1 degree Celsius (about 2 degrees Fahrenheit) of temperature increase, hospitalizations from respiratory and asthma - related illness rise by as much as 4.5 percent among the elderly.
In communities with the greatest drop in pollutants during the study period, bronchitis prevalence fell by as much as 30 percent in children with asthma.
According to a study presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) Annual Scientific Meeting, 34 percent of patients studied were mistakenly labeled as having aspirin hypersensitivity if they had a history of any gastrointestinal symptoms.
In the same Finnish cohort that found doses of vitamin D in excess of 2,000 IU per day during infancy to powerfully protect against type 1 diabetes (see sidebar «Vitamin D and Type 1 Diabetes below), regular supplementation with vitamin D was associated with a 33 percent increased risk of atopy and allergic rhinitis compared to irregular or no supplementation; among those who supplemented regularly, the data suggested that supplementation with 2000 IU or more per day may increase the risk of asthma by as much as four times compared to regular supplementation with lower doses, although the study lacked the statistical power to determine whether or not this apparent effect was due to chance.34
Children who received antibiotics as babies were twice as likely to have asthma and had a 50 percent higher likelihood of hay fever and anaphylactic allergies.
The analysis indicated that if Stockholm had continued with business as usual, its air would have been five to ten percent more polluted between 2006 and 2010, and young children would have suffered 45 percent more asthma attacks.
The EPA estimates that the new rule would cut traditional air pollutants such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and soot by 25 percent, according to those who have been briefed, yielding a public health benefit of between $ 55 billion to $ 93 billion when it is fully implemented with 2,700 to 6600 premature deaths avoided and 140,000 to 150,000 asthma attacks a year avoided.
Lung cancer and asthma hospitalization rates for children and adults are higher for the Duwamish Valley compared to King County as a whole, with asthma rates 67 percent higher for children and 60 percent higher for adults due to air pollutants released with the burning of fossil fuels.