Asthma News – November 30, 2023
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The Biden-Harris administration announced approximately $2 billion in funding available to support community-driven projects that deploy clean energy, strengthen climate resilience, and build capacity for communities to tackle environmental and climate justice challenges.
Read the Community Change Grants Notice of Funding Opportunity
The research shows that vaping nicotine is associated with sleep problems. Sleep problems can include insufficient sleep, interrupted sleep, restlessness during sleep, nightmares, and daytime sleepiness. Sleep is essential for young people’s brain development and mental health, with research finding an association between poor sleep quality and negative mental health.
The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health provides an overview of information and resources on asthma and complementary approaches to asthma care.
A particularly cold winter, with an average temperature below the climate’s normal value (−4.5°C, as determined for the period of 1981 to 2010), increased the risk of developing asthma by 41% during the following year. The combined impact of cold winters on asthma could involve a combination of frigid temperatures and changes in environmental conditions and human conduct.
There were nearly 2000 fewer steps/day among those with uncontrolled asthma versus controlled and among those with obese BMI versus nonobese, respectively. Increasing step counts should be considered an important lifestyle intervention goal in obese and non-obese asthma patients with low physical activity levels.
Researchers provided a follow-up telephone outreach call 5−8 weeks after the clinic visit of pediatric and young adult subjects found to have poor ICS refill persistence. Telephone outreach after out-patient clinic visits for asthma showed a short-term benefit in ICS refill persistence; however, the effect size was small.