Major weight loss decreases risk of asthma attacks

Substantial weight loss through procedures such as bariatric surgery can significantly reduce the risk of asthma attacks - also called exacerbations - in obese patients with asthma, new research has found.
"We found that in obese patients with asthma the risk of emergency department visits and hospitalisations for asthma exacerbations decreased by half in the two years after bariatric surgery," said the lead author of the study Kohei Hasegawa from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).....

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Not just weight loss, bariatric surgery can reduce asthma risk too!

According the WHO, obesity and diabetes are the two main lifestyle related disorders that are creating havoc among the Indian population. In fact experts believe that soon we are heading to be people with the largest number of sufferers with a condition called diabetosity. Obesity is not only about fat retention in the body but increases one’s chances of respiratory problems like asthma.....

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World catches up with man who fights allergies with plants

Thomas Leo Ogren’s war on allergy-triggering plants spans almost three decades.
Ogren has seen grown men laid low by a sniff of a flower, taken chain saws to allergenic male yew pines, and burned out the motors of electric typewriters trying to get the word out. Before his first book on plant allergies was published in 2000, he collected more than 300 rejection slips.....

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