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Air pollution especially harmful to lungs of obese children

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The Harvard team is presenting another study at the American Thoracic Society meeting that shows that air pollution also has harmful long-term effects on obese children. That study, which followed children from fourth or fifth grade through 12th grade, found that long-term exposure to air pollution had irreversible effects on lung function in obese children.


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