Aerocrine AB announced that a group of prominent clinicians and researchers, all leaders in the field of asthma in the US, has issued a consensus paper recommending that inflammation monitoring using exhaled nitric oxide should be part of the routine clinical management of asthma in conjunction with other conventional methods. The points of clinical consensus were arrived at during a closed meeting held at National Jewish Health in Denver, Colorado.

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A new study conducted by a team led by Rob McConnell, professor at the University of Southern California (USC), indicated that children of stressed parents are more likely to develop asthma triggered by air pollution. Researchers found that stress and low parental education were also linked with larger effects of exposure to tobacco smoke during pregnancy.