Polluted city neighborhoods are bad news for asthmatic children

(Springer) Children with asthma who grow up in a New York City neighborhood where air pollution is prevalent need emergency medical treatment more often than asthmatics in less polluted areas. This is according to researchers from Columbia University in the US in a new study published in the Springer Nature-branded journal Pediatric Research.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news