{"id":5567,"date":"2009-08-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.dev\/?p=5567"},"modified":"2009-08-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T00:00:00","slug":"depression-asthma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/depression-asthma\/","title":{"rendered":"ET Helps with Asthma Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/wp\/images\/et(1).jpg' align='left' hspace='20' alt='After watching distressing scenes from ET, children with asthma and depression experienced worse symptoms than children with asthma alone.'><\/p>\n<div align=justify>What do ET (yes, we mean the Extraterrestrial being from the Stephen Speilberg movie), asthma, and depression have in common?<\/p>\n<p>They were all part of a recent study, reported on by <a href='http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,540529,00.html?sPage=fnc\/health\/allergy' target='_blank'>FoxNews<\/a>, which showed that children who have asthma and symptoms of depression experience greater airway resistance when they are sad or stressed.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Bruce D. Miller of State University of New York at Buffalo and his colleagues studied the breathing patterns of 90 children between the ages of 7 and 17 before and after they watched scenes from <i>ET: The Extraterrestrial<\/i>. After watching distressing scenes of the movie, asthmatic children who also had depression symptoms consistently exhibited breathing problems that indicated worsening asthma. <\/p>\n<p>Even if asthmatic children do not have depression, it is important to know that stressful or emotionally traumatic events may cause more intense asthmatic reactions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do ET (yes, we mean the Extraterrestrial being from the Stephen Speilberg movie), asthma, and depression have in common? They were all part of a recent study, reported on by FoxNews, which showed that children who have asthma and&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":4,"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\/5567"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}