Schools environment associated with asthma symptoms
Date:
November 21, 2016
Source:
The JAMA Network Journals
Summary:
Do air-borne allergens in schools affect students' asthma symptoms? A new study examined that question in a study that included 284 students (ages 4 to 13) enrolled at 37 inner-city schools in the northeastern United States.
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Do air-borne allergens in schools affect students' asthma symptoms?
A new article by Wanda Phipatanakul, M.D., M.S., of Boston's Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, and coauthors examined that question in a study that included 284 students (ages 4 to 13) enrolled at 37 inner-city schools in the northeastern United States.
Classroom and home dust samples linked to the students were collected and analyzed for common indoor allergens, including rat, mouse, cockroach, cat, dog and dust mites. Associations between school exposure to allergens and asthma outcomes were adjusted for exposure to the allergens at home.
Mouse allergen was the most commonly detected allergen in schools and homes. Higher exposure to mouse allergen at school was associated with increased asthma symptoms and lower lung function, according to the results.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161121175449.htm
