Better air quality may reduce pediatric asthma prevalence
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Researchers found that the annual rate of newly diagnosed children asthma cases in southern California dropped from 2.7 per 100 children between 1993 and 2001 to 1.8 between 2006 and 2014, amid a decline in regional levels of pollutants such as fine particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide and ozone gasses during the same period. The findings were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. click on title above to open article. Seems obvious but science requires hard data to back up