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Childhood asthma and chronic lung disease elevated near Logan Airport, state study finds... Page 1 of 12 ATTACHMENT G Subscribe ; Members Starting at 99 cents , Sign in b illnesse: Lnore Airport Study (loesn’t find higher rates of heart disease, hearing loss nea FiESSICA RiNALDI /GLOBE STAFF one of 17 communitiesYWnthrop, cited in a Health under a flight path to Depi Lent report By David Abel and Zachary T. Sampson GLOBE STAFF ! GLOBE CORRESPONDENT MAY 29, 20r4 https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyje/health-.wellnpqq/':>QI 4/nq/IQ/"h:14-’'’- ' ,nH,4l_ _- - - I a tAn Childhood asthma and chronic lung disease elevated near Logan Airport, state study finds... Page 2 of 12 Children who live in neighborhoods bordering Logan International Airport are as much as four times more likely to wheeze, experience shortness of breath, and exhibit other signs of undiagnosed asthma compared with children who live farther away, according to a Lew awaited state report released Wednesday night. The study, commissioned by the Legislature 14 years ago and only now 6nished, also found that adults who have lived near the airport for three or more years – in parts of East Boston, South Boston, Chelsea, and Winthrop – are nearly twice as likely to experience chronic obstructive pulmonary disease than those living in communities with less exposure to air pollution from planes taking off and landing. But the $1.8 million study by the state Department of Public Health, which was delayed after going years without hrnding and after five revisions to its complicated statistical models,…

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