{"id":372,"date":"2018-04-06T20:22:57","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T17:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/air4health.eu\/?p=372"},"modified":"2018-04-06T20:22:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T17:22:57","slug":"evidence-of-the-link-air-pollution-and-asthma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/air4health.eu\/en\/evidence-of-the-link-air-pollution-and-asthma\/","title":{"rendered":"Evidence of the link: air pollution and asthma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long-term exposure to high levels of road traffic and ozone significantly increases the risk of asthma symptoms, asthma attacks or the need for use of asthma medications, according to a new study published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/29618600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Respiratory Journal<\/a><br \/>\nThe study strengthens the evidence from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/25712593\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previous studies<\/a> on the link between long-term exposure to outdoor pollution and asthma in adults.<br \/>\nIt also offers new insights in to what the underlying mechanisms are, by examining the concentration of 8-isoprostane (8-iso), which is exhaled in the breath and believed to be a biological marker of tissue damage in the lungs.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-term exposure to high levels of road traffic and ozone significantly increases the risk of asthma symptoms, asthma attacks or the need for use of asthma medications, according to a new study published in the European Respiratory Journal The study strengthens the evidence from previous studies on the link between long-term exposure to outdoor pollution [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/air4health.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/air4health.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/air4health.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/air4health.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/air4health.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/air4health.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/air4health.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/air4health.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/air4health.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/air4health.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}