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* USA - Soot in diesel trucks exhaust doubles kids asthma risk
Washington,DC,USA -South Asian Women's Forum (New Delhi,India) -17 Oct 2006: -- A study on school students by scientists at the New York University has established a link between soot particles emanating from diesel trucks and asthma... The five-year long study by researchers from the university’s School of Medicine and Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service showed that soot particles spewing from the exhaust of diesel trucks constitute a major contributor to the alarmingly high rates of asthma symptoms among school-aged children in the South Bronx... The researchers observed that over the course of the study, asthma symptoms, particularly wheezing, doubled among elementary school children on high traffic days, as a large number of students attend schools in close proximity to busy truck routes... George Thurston, Sc.D., Associate Professor of Environmental Medicine at NYU School of Medicine said that, the major type of air pollutant that was associated with symptoms of asthma was black soot, which is found in diesel exhaust, and that that type of carbon had been cited as a causal agent in asthma in a number of other controlled-exposure studies in the laboratory...
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