Children with asthma may have more memory difficulties

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Asthma during childhood is linked to memory difficulties, according to international researchers who compared memory and other mental skills among a group of children aged around 9-12. The team tested the memory skills of about 2000 children, and say children with asthma had a lower ability to remember specific events, and also showed lower mental processing speed and impulse control/attention skills. For a different analysis, the researchers looked at a group of nearly 500 children over two years, and say the link between asthma and memory difficulties was stronger among those who developed asthma earlier.

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Organisation/s: University of California, USA

Funder: This research was supported by a seed grant from the Memory and Plasticity Program at University of California Davis (to Dr Ghetti), and by the Learning, Memory, and Plasticity Training Program Fellowship (grant No. T32-MH112507-06 to Mr Christopher-Hayes) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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