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Early-life exposure to air pollution may have a direct effect on lung health later in life, reveals a study on Friday that underlines the need to reduce pollution...
Scientists at the University of Southern California (USC) found that the link between childhood air pollution exposure and adult bronchitis symptoms such as bronchitis, chronic cough, or congestion or phlegm production not associated with a coldpersisted even when the researchers adjusted for asthma or bronchitis symptoms early in life...
The study, published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Clinical Care Medicine, included 1,308 Childrens Health Study participants with an average age of 32 at their adult assessment...
The findings suggest that childhood air pollution exposure has more subtle effects on our respiratory system that still impact us in adulthood, said Erika Garcia, Assistant Professor of population and public health sciences at the Keck School of Medicine...
The team also found that the effect of nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter exposure during childhood on bronchitis symptoms among adults was stronger for those who had been diagnosed with asthma as kids.. #Environment #Pollution.
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