Health Tip: Learn Your Risk for Asthma

(HealthDay News) -- Asthma can begin at any age, but it usually starts in childhood.

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute says risk factors for developing asthma include:

  • Having frequent respiratory infections and wheezing.
  • Having a parent with asthma.
  • Having allergies.
  • Having eczema.
  • Being a boy or an adult woman.
  • Working in an environment with dust and chemicals.

    • Date Published: 07/27/2017

    Related Articles

    Search Articles

    Antibiotics Probably Won't Ease Your Cough, Even If Infection is Bacterial: Study

    How To Fight Common Wintertime Respiratory Viruses

    Sleepy Nurses Vulnerable To Common Cold, Other Infectious Diseases

    Experimental Nasal Spray Might Ward Off Multiple Viruses

    Is It a Cold, Flu or COVID? An Expert Helps You Sort It Out

    Neosporin Ointment in the Nose Might Be Potent Antibiotic

    Simple Paper-Strip Test Might Spot Flu, and Which Type You Have

    Patient Hospitalized in Louisiana With First U.S. Case of Severe Bird Flu

    Blood Test May Help Predict How Long Immunity Lasts

    FDA Proposes Ban on a 'Useless' Decongestant, Phenylephrine

    Bird Flu Virus Stays Active on Cow Milking Equipment for at Least One Hour