{"id":260,"date":"2013-02-19T14:56:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T14:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=260"},"modified":"2013-02-19T15:29:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T15:29:25","slug":"asthmatics-more-at-risk-for-related-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"Asthmatics more at risk for related diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Mayo Clinic recently completed a long-term study of asthma and other inflammatory illnesses, including inflammatory bowel disease (IBS), rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes and coronary heart disease. They found that asthmatics had a greater incidence of these other four inflammatory conditions than non-asthmatics in their study.<\/div>\n<div>There was roughly a 20 percent greater likelihood for these other four illnesses in asthmatics. This is a very strong association that had only previously been suspected. \u00a0The Mayo study done in thousands of people indicates just how compelling this association is.<\/div>\n<div>The researchers had two conclusions:<\/div>\n<div>First: Physicians who treat asthmatics should be aware of the greater risk their patients have for other inflammatory diseases.<\/div>\n<div>Second: More basic research needs to be done to ferret out the underlying causes for inflammation as a disease instigator.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mayo Clinic recently completed a long-term study of asthma and other inflammatory illnesses, including inflammatory bowel disease (IBS), rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes and coronary heart disease. They found that asthmatics had a greater incidence of these other four inflammatory conditions than non-asthmatics in their study. There was roughly a 20 percent greater likelihood for these other four illnesses in asthmatics. This is a very strong association that had only previously been suspected. \u00a0The Mayo study done in thousands of people&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=260\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-asthma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}