Electric stoves could help people with asthma breathe easier

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentGentlemen, ladies, and anyone cooking dinner: the stove in your kitchen may be a suspect.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSwitching from gas to electric could ease asthma symptoms, Science News reports.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIt's a study of eighty-five people with poorly controlled asthma, whose gas stoves were swapped for electric ones. Nobody was arrested.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentNot yet. Indoor nitrogen dioxide fell from twenty-one to six point three parts per billion, according to one summary of the study.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThat is a drop with consequences.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIt's a gas in the air, Kenji. It's a stove, not a heist.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentMedicalXpress says emergency room visits and hospitalizations for asthma fell about seventy percent. Missed work and school days fell about eighty.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSomebody should be answering questions.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe questions are mostly about the funding. It was meant to follow twelve hundred households, but the grants ended early and the numbers shrank.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo a twelve-hundred-household study became eighty-five people. That's the kind of thing that gets a corkboard.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorNinety-eight percent of them were satisfied with the induction stove. Forty-one percent said that about gas. Verdict: electric wins in a landslide.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentForty-one percent is a number gas will say it can stand behind. It'll call it a strong base.