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Article: AAAAI: Asthma Common in U.S. Olympic Athletes who Participated in the 1996 Olympic Games, Researchers Report.
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- November 11, 1998
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/ADVANCE/ IOWA CITY, Iowa, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- At least one in six athletes representing the United States in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta had a history of asthma, according to a study published today in the November issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
Researchers at the University of Iowa and the U.S. Olympic Committee sought to examine how many athletes in the 1996 Olympic Games had a history of asthma, had taken asthma medications or had symptoms that suggested asthma. Asthma is a lung disease characterized by tightness in the chest, difficulty breathing, ...