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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Daniel Keane

Child asthma hospital admissions could quadruple as school pupils return

Children with asthma in England could be four times more likely to be hospitalised with life-threatening asthma attacks once they return to school next week, a charity has warned.

Analysis by Asthma + Lung UK reveals a 348 per cent rise in the number of 5-14-year-olds admitted to hospital with an asthma attack in September last year compared with the month before.

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