Adult asthma tied to heart disease in women

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Asthma that begins in adulthood appears to increase the risk of heart disease and stroke in women but not in men. And compared with their counterparts without asthma, women with adult-onset asthma had a 2.10-fold increase in the rate of heart disease and a 2.36-fold increase in the rate of stroke.

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