{"id":83903,"date":"2018-10-24T09:22:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T16:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/air-pollution-leads-to-millions-of-er-visits-for-asthma-attacks-worldwide"},"modified":"2018-10-25T15:15:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T22:15:05","slug":"air-pollution-leads-to-millions-of-er-visits-for-asthma-attacks-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/air-pollution-leads-to-millions-of-er-visits-for-asthma-attacks-worldwide","title":{"rendered":"Air pollution leads to millions of ER visits for asthma attacks worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/air-pollution-leads-to-millions-of-er-visits-for-asthma-attacks-worldwide2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new research suggests that:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>WASHINGTON, DC (Oct. 24, 2018)\u2014 Nine to 33 million visits to the emergency room (ER) for asthma worldwide may be triggered by breathing in air polluted by ozone or fine particulate matter\u2014pollutants that can enter the lung\u2019s deep airways, according to a study published today.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have long known that breathing in air sullied by car emissions and other pollutants could trigger asthma attacks. However, the new study is the first to quantify air pollution\u2019s impact on asthma cases around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMillions of people worldwide have to go to emergency rooms for asthma attacks every year because they are breathing dirty air,\u201d said Susan C. Anenberg, PhD, MS, lead author of the study and an Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH). \u201cOur findings suggest that policies aimed at cleaning up the air can reduce the global burden of asthma and improve respiratory health around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2018-10\/gwu-apl101918.php\">https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2018&#45;10\/gwu-apl101918.php<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new research suggests that: WASHINGTON, DC (Oct. 24, 2018)\u2014 Nine to 33 million visits to the emergency room (ER) for asthma worldwide may be triggered by breathing in air polluted by ozone or fine particulate matter\u2014pollutants that can enter the lung\u2019s deep airways, according to a study published today. Scientists have long known that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84020,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83903\/revisions\/84020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}