{"id":18904,"date":"2019-04-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/11\/four-million-new-peds-asthma-cases-attributed-to-no2-annually\/"},"modified":"2019-04-12T16:08:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T16:08:47","slug":"four-million-new-peds-asthma-cases-attributed-to-no2-annually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/11\/four-million-new-peds-asthma-cases-attributed-to-no2-annually\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Million New Peds Asthma Cases Attributed to NO<sub>2<\/sub> Annually"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Burden of new pediatric asthma cases accounts for 13 percent of global incidence<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, April 11, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; An estimated 4.0 million new pediatric asthma cases could be attributed to ambient nitrogen dioxide (NO<sub>2<\/sub>) pollution annually, according to a study published online April 10 in <i>The Lancet Planetary Health<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Pattanun Achakulwisut, Ph.D., from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and colleagues estimated the annual global number of new pediatric asthma cases attributable to NO<sub>2<\/sub> exposure in 194 countries and 125 major cities at a spatial resolution of 250 \u00d7 250 m. Country-specific and age group-specific asthma incidence rates were obtained from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers estimated that NO<sub>2<\/sub> pollution could result in 4.0 million new pediatric asthma cases annually (64 percent in urban centers), accounting for 13 percent of incidence globally. By region, the greatest burdens of NO<sub>2<\/sub> exposure-associated new asthma cases were estimated for Andean Latin America, high-income North America, and high-income Asia Pacific (340, 310, and 300 cases per year per 100,000 children). By city, the greatest burdens of new asthma cases associated with NO<sub>2<\/sub> exposure were estimated for Lima, Peru; Shanghai, China; and Bogota, Colombia (690, 650, and 580 cases per year per 100,000 children). About 92 percent of pediatric asthma incidence attributable to NO<sub>2<\/sub> exposure occurred in areas with annual average NO<sub>2<\/sub> concentrations less than 21 parts per billion (World Health Organization guideline).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our findings suggest that the adequacy of the WHO guideline for annual average NO<sub>2<\/sub> concentrations might need to be revisited,&#8221; the authors write.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lanplh\/article\/PIIS2542-5196(19)30046-4\/fulltext\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Abstract\/Full Text<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lanplh\/article\/PIIS2542-5196(19)30059-2\/fulltext\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Editorial<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burden of new pediatric asthma cases accounts for 13 percent of global incidence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-18904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}