“This starts from the moment children are conceived, poor maternal diet, maternal and grandmaternal smoking, some air pollution exposure,” Graham Devereux, professor of respiratory diseases at Liverpool Tropical School of Medicine elle_odwyer reports
They also raise concerns about the amount ofhas analysed NHS data for GPs across England, ranking the top 30 GP practices with the highest rates of asthma prevalence – the proportion of their patients who have been diagnosed with the condition.
The GP practice dealing with the highest asthma level is St Werburgh’s Medical Practice for the Homeless in Chester, which has a 14 per cent asthma prevalence rate. , central Scotland and Northern Ireland had double the rate of emergency hospital admissions for asthma, emphysema and other lung conditions, and almost triple the rate of deaths, when compared with London and the South East.
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