Tag: Environment

Switching to dry powder inhaler more than halves carbon footprint of asthma treatment without asthma worsening

Exposure to air pollution greater for certain racial/ethnic groups, low-income groups

Rural home health care agencies perform better on process measures; urban agencies perform better on outcome measures

Concentration of fecal microplastics higher in individuals with IBD versus healthy participants

Seafood consumption, low-to-moderate environmental mercury exposure not linked to all-cause, cardiovascular-related mortality in U.S. adults

Exposure to PM_2.5 above 10.75 µg/m³ associated with residence in area with high risk for community-acquired pneumonia in children

For each 1-degree Celsius increase in daily mean temperature, estimated risk for hospitalization for renal diseases increased by 0.9 percent

Screening efforts should be focused on populations at high risk based on age of housing, sociodemographic risk factors

Authors estimate roughly 100,000 premature deaths among older Americans each year and a $40 billion annual U.S. economic burden

Young children with public insurance and living in communities with more pre-1950s housing and poverty at increased risk