Sentences with phrase «rate of asthma attacks»

a 30 per cent reduction in the rate of asthma attacks requiring treatment with steroid tablets or injections — from 0.43 events per person per year to 0.30.

They also found that vitamin D supplementation reduced the rate of asthma attacks needing treatment with steroid tablets.

Infants and children who are around secondhand smoke have higher rates of asthma attacks, respiratory infections, ear infections, and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) than those who are not.

Today, we have limits in place for arsenic, mercury and lead, but we let power plants release as much carbon pollution as they want — pollution that is contributing to higher rates of asthma attacks and more frequent and severe floods and heat waves.

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Coal plants are one of the largest contributors to atmospheric particulate matter and ozone — which are linked to worsened asthma and increased rates of heart attacks and premature death — as well as greenhouse gases and toxic substances, including mercury.

People exposed to the terror and dust of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center have higher rates of asthma and post-traumatic stress than those who were further away from Ground Zero.