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Study Links Improved Air Quality With Decreased Emergency Visits For Asthma

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, March 18th, 2001

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released a study showing that decreased citywide use of automobiles in Atlanta, Georgia, during the 1996 Summer Olympics led to improved air quality and a large decrease in childhood emergency room visits and hospitalizations for asthma.

Atlanta's inner-city children on Medicaid seemed to benefit the most from this Olympic experiment in city transportation planning, showing a 42% decrease in asthma-related emergency room visits. The study was released in the February 21, 2001, edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Asthma is a substantial public health...

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