Poorly controlled asthma drives excess carbon emissions: large UK study (published 2024)

A study including 236K participants with poorly controlled asthma in the UK reported that poorly controlled asthma results in:
– 3 times the carbon emissions of well-controlled asthma (on average)
– Excess was largely driven (90%) by inappropriate use of SABA.

Categories: Asthma Carbon Footprint, Climate change
Entry Date: 3/07/2024
Source 1 Name: Wilkinson AJK, et al. Thorax. 2024 Feb 27;79(5):412–21. doi: 10.1136/thorax-2023-220259.
Source 1 URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38413192/