Bushfires appear to affect lung function of children with asthma

Children with asthma exposed to bushfire smoke demonstrated a clinically important 5% mean decrease in forced vital capacity percent predicted, according to a study published in Pediatric Allergy and Immunology.
Carla Rebeca Da Silva Sena, PhD, research associate at The University of Newcastle and pediatric researcher at Hunter Medical Research Institute, and colleagues collected data from 129 children with asthma aged 4 to 16 years who had lung function tests during 212 visits to the outpatient childhood asthma clinic at John Hunter Children’s Hospital in New South Wales, Australia,

Children with asthma exposed to bushfire smoke demonstrated a clinically important 5% mean decrease in forced vital capacity percent predicted, according to a study published in Pediatric Allergy and Immunology.
Carla Rebeca Da Silva Sena, PhD, research associate at The University of Newcastle and pediatric researcher at Hunter Medical Research Institute, and colleagues collected data from 129 children with asthma aged 4 to 16 years who had lung function tests during 212 visits to the outpatient childhood asthma clinic at John Hunter Children’s Hospital in New South Wales, Australia,