Living within 100 metres of a park as a child slashes the risk of asthma as an adult by up to 71%, ‘fascinating’ study reveals

Growing up near a park cuts a person’s risk of developing asthma in adulthood, a study has found.

Those who lived within 100 metres of ‘green spaces’ as children are up to 71 per cent less likely to develop the characteristic asthma symptom wheezing.

And researchers discovered they were also less likely to develop breathlessness, coughs that woke them up or late-onset asthma.

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