Millions of children worldwide develop asthma annually due to traffic-related pollution

Thursday, April 11, 2019 - 10:40 in Health & Medicine

About 4 million children worldwide develop asthma each year because of inhaling nitrogen dioxide air pollution, according to a new study. The study, based on data from 2010 to 2015, estimates that 64 percent of these new cases of asthma occur in urban areas.

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