Choked! Occupational asthma threatens estate workers

At dawn Gunasekaran wakes up from his fitful sleep and wraps a towel around his head. His wife Rani too gets up and makes tea for both of them before their three children wake up and she has to attend to them before they go to school. She too has not had adequate sleep during the night due to Gunesakaran’s constant racking cough.....

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Vegetable-rich diet, exercise ease asthma woes: report

Getting regular exercise and eating fresh vegetables can ease the symptoms of asthma, the National Center for Global Health and Medicine has reported.
It is the first time that a healthy lifestyle — rather than a drug treatment — has been reported to control the symptoms of asthma.....

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Polygenic risk and the development and course of asthma: an analysis of data from a four-decade longitudinal study

Background
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have discovered genetic variants that predispose individuals to asthma. To integrate these new discoveries with emerging models of asthma pathobiology, we aimed to test how genetic discoveries relate to developmental and biological characteristics of asthma.....

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