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Article: Asthma attacks linked to thunderstorms: study
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- July 14, 2008
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Washington, July 14 -- Researchers have explored the link between thunderstorms and asthma attacks in the first-ever exhaustive study that has significant bearing on public health.
Researchers studying a database comprising more than 10 million emergency room visits in some 41 hospitals between 1993 and 2004, found a 3 percent higher incidence of visits for asthma attacks on days following thunderstorms.
â[euro]oeWhile a 3 percent increase in risk may seem modest... a modest relative increase could have a significant public health impact for a region with more than five million people," said Andrew Grundstein, a ...