David Beckham has revealed that he suffers from asthma. The 34-year-old L.A. Galaxy soccer ace was snapped using an inhaler during a match against Real Salt Lake during the Major League Soccer Cup Final in Seattle last Sunday.
David had never been seen using his medication in public, although the athlete’s publicist says he’s lived with [...]
England midfielder David Beckham has suffered from asthma since he was a boy, but it does not affect his performance, his agent was quoted as saying Tuesday. Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper published a picture of the 34-year-old using an asthma inhaler during his US club LA Galaxy’s MLS Cup
Children with depressed mothers are likely to frequently suffer asthma symptoms, reveals a new study.
According to Johns Hopkins researchers, maternal depression aggravates a child’s asthma.
They looked at 262 mothers of African-American children with asthma and found that children whose mothers had more depressive symptoms had more frequent asthma symptoms during the six-months of the study. [...]
A new study has revealed that early exposure to environmental factors such as allergens, pollutants, and respiratory viruses might put infants at an increased risk of lung disease in adulthood.
It can lead to pulmonary inflammatory diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma later in life.
The researchers from Louisiana State University, New Orleans [...]
Stressed parents may play a role in childhood asthma, researchers believe.
They found the children of tense parents who lived in polluted areas were far more likely to have asthma than friends in the same neighbourhood.
The University of California team believe parental anxieties combine with other known risk factors to increase a child’s asthma risk.
They told Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences there might be an underlying biological explanation.
Experts have already shown that women who are stressed in pregnancy may raise the risk of their child developing asthma or other allergies.
"These results suggest that children from stressful households are more susceptible to the effects of traffic-related pollution and in utero tobacco smoke on the development of asthma"
The study authors
And stress is known to trigger asthma attacks.
In the latest study the researchers followed 2,497 healthy primary school children living in Southern California and recorded how many of these developed asthma over a three-year period – 120 in total.
They also gathered information on other known asthma risk factors like exposure to traffic-related air pollution and maternal smoking, as well as parental education, income and stress levels.
Stressful households
As expected, children exposed to more air pollution had a higher risk of asthma, but this risk was further increased if their parents were stressed and described their lives as "unpredictable", "uncontrollable" or "overwhelming".
Maternal smoking and parental stress posed a similar compounded risk.
Professor Rob McConnell and his team speculate that stress increases the inflammatory effects of pollutants in tobacco smoke and traffic fumes on the airways.
Writing in PNAS they said: "These results suggest that children from stressful households are more susceptible to the effects of traffic-related pollution and in utero tobacco smoke on the development of asthma."
Elaine Vickers of Asthma UK said: "This study adds to existing evidence suggesting that a child’s environment can impact on their risk of developing asthma.
"For example, smoking during pregnancy, traffic pollution and stress in the home may all have harmful effects.
"We know that smoking during pregnancy significantly increases a baby’s risk of having breathing difficulties and that children whose parents smoke are 1.5 times more likely to develop asthma, so Asthma UK strongly advises parents to avoid smoking around children and young people, especially in the home.
"One in 11 children in the UK has asthma so studies like this are vital, as they provide an insight into the factors influencing asthma development and therefore how it might be prevented." </p
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Children of stressed out parents are at an increased risk of developing asthma associated with environmental triggers such as high levels of traffic-related pollution and tobacco smoke, says a new study.
The study, led by researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC), appears this week in the Online Early [...]
Stress and depression could worsen childhood asthma, according to a new study.
The study, conducted by researchers at the University at Buffalo, has shown that depressed kids with asthma exhibit a dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system along with increased airway compromise.
It is thought to be the first study to examine pathways linking emotional stress, depressive [...]
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