America's Most Polluted Cities & Asthma
By Mike Gunion, President & CEO - AspenAir
Reading the American Lung Association's 2011 list of America’s most polluted cities (To view the current rankings of America's most polluted cities, click here) made me think about a recent (and related) May 3, 2011 Fox News.com article that outlined a CDC study showing that Asthma rates have increased yet again. The article stated that “about one in 12 people in the United States now has asthma, a total of 24.6 million people and an increase of 4.3 million since 2001", according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This means that asthma continues to be the number one reason why kids miss school and adults miss work in the US. (To read the entire article, click here)
So we know that the air is dirty and that it is making us sick. It is important in these tough economic times to keep our eye on the target: health and quality of life. There are no silver bullets for asthmatics, but I do believe that there are opportunities for improving their day-to-day experience thru simple methods of improving indoor air quality, for example. This is why I became involved in the IAQ business in the first place.
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