{"id":5220,"date":"2007-05-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.dev\/?p=5220"},"modified":"2007-05-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T00:00:00","slug":"air-pollution-heart-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/air-pollution-heart-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Particulate Air Pollution May Cause Heart Problems for Asthma Sufferers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/wp\/images\/asthma-heart.jpg' border='0' alt='Air Pollution Harms Hearts of Allergy Sufferers' align='left'><br \/><a target='_blank' href=http:\/\/www.newswise.com\/articles\/view\/529837\/?sc=rsmn>Newswise<\/a> reports that particulate matter like construction dust may cause heart problems for asthma sufferers, according to a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health.<\/p>\n<p>In people with asthma, a slight increase of particulate matter in the outdoor air raised bad cholesterol and increased white blood cell counts (a sign of inflammation).<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This research was all done with study participants just being outside and breathing outdoor air,&#8217; says Dr. Karin Yeatts, research assistant professor of epidemiology at the UNC School of Public Health, a member of the UNC Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma and Lung Biology, and the study<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newswise reports that particulate matter like construction dust may cause heart problems for asthma sufferers, according to a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health. In people with asthma, a slight increase&hellip; <\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-categories\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[188],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}