US Olympic gold medal sprinter Noah Lyles has asthma. As a child it was so severe he was hospitalized many times.
And as it turns out, the so-called fastest man in the world is not the only Olympian with that chronic condition. A 2023 review in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports found that 15 to 30% of Olympic athletes are asthmatic.
“As children grow and get older, they can have fewer symptoms,” says Robin Mayfield, MD, lead family physician at the Whittier Community Health Center in Roxbury. “But it really is a chronic illness, and it's always there in the background somewhere. It may not be as bad as it was when they were children.
“We have such older homes here in Massachusetts. So it causes them to be exposed to mold,” explains Tokunbo Ekpebor, Whittier’s charge nurse in the Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine Clinic.
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