Wildfires

As wildfires rage in Canada, raising new air quality concerns in the eastern United States, Healio has compiled a list of recent articles detailing the impacts of wildfires on allergy, asthma and beyond.

Wildfires such as the current blazes in Canada affecting air quality on the East Coast and in the Midwest are dangerous for patients with asthma and other respiratory diseases.

People residing in the East Coast are currently experiencing poor air quality due to smoke and haze from hundreds of wildfires in Canada.

As hundreds of wildfires in Canada drive haze and smoke across the East Coast, patients and providers alike may worry about the effect on their health, including asthma and other illnesses.

Heightened odds for a tuberculosis diagnosis were related to exposure to ambient air pollution that contained wildfire smoke, according to results published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Children with asthma exposed to bushfire smoke demonstrated a clinically important 5% mean decrease in forced vital capacity percent predicted, according to a study published in Pediatric Allergy and Immunology.

The American Kidney Fund has activated its Disaster Relief Program to provide emergency grants of $250 for dialysis and post-transplant patients who live within 50 miles of an active wildfire in New Mexico.

PHOENIX — Wildfires outside of Monterey, Mexico, last spring had an impact on patients with respiratory allergies in the city, according to a poster presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting.

Record high temperatures and raging wildfires, which are currently occurring in California and the western United States, can create dangerous air quality and serious health hazards for people with and without preexisting medical conditions.

The risk for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest increases with wildfire smoke exposure, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.