Asthma attacks reduced in tree-lined urban neighborhoods

Asthma attacks reduced in tree-lined urban neighborhoods

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsFile -- People living in polluted urban areas are far less likely to be admitted to hospital with asthma when there are lots of trees in their neighbourhood, a study by the University of Exeter’s medical school has found.

The study into the impact of urban greenery on asthma suggests that respiratory health can be improved by the expansion of tree cover in very polluted urban neighbourhoods.

The study, published in the journal Environment International, looked at more than 650,000 serious asthma attacks over a 15 year period. Emergency hospitalisations were compared across 26,000 urban neighbourhoods in England.

In the most polluted urban areas, trees had a particularly strong association with fewer emergency asthma cases. …

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(2017-12-04), Asthma attacks reduced in tree-lined urban neighborhoods, NewsFile, 193, ISSN: 0000-0000, BUTTER® ID: 014802843