Tonsil removal for youth with sleep apnea may improve asthma, study says

The surgical removal of tonsils and adenoids in children with sleep apnea may mitigate asthma, reveals a new study published in PLOS Medicine.
"Several small studies have described a strong association between obstructive sleep apnea and asthma: two common inflammatory conditions that impair breathing in children,” lead author Rakesh Bhattacharjee, assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Chicago, said in a news release. “But we wanted to test the strength of the connection when studied in a much larger population.”.....

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Poor Quality Housing Tied to Higher Asthma Rates Among Kids

TUESDAY, Nov. 4, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- There's more evidence that poorer housing is tied to higher rates of asthma attacks among kids.
In a new study, researchers led by Dr. Andrew Beck, a pediatrician at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, tracked links between community housing code violations -- infractions such as the presence in homes of mold and cockroaches -- and the health of more than 4,300 children, aged 1 to 16.....

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Adult Asthma Linked to Higher Dementia Risk

Published online by the British Journal of Psychiatry, the study * reports the findings from the Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre at the University of Edinburgh, where researchers analysed data from 18 prospective general population cohort studies with identical methodologies for the years 1994-2008 (181,800 participants).....

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