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Doctors warn of danger of 'feather duvet lung'Medical team say people’s unexplained breathlessness could be down to bedding dustAs winter approaches it might be tempting to curl up under a thick feather duvet, but experts have warned it might lead to more than just warm toes.Doctors have reported a case of “feather duvet lung” – a lung inflammation caused by breathing in dust from the feathers in bedding – and have called for medical professionals to be on the alert if patients turn up with unexplained breathlessness.The team say the condition, a form of hypersensitivity pneumonitis, is down to an immune response. Symptoms include night sweats, a dry cough and shortness of breath – repeated exposure to the cause can cause irreversible scarring of the lungs.
Men in west London have highest male life expectancy in EUExpert warns of ‘huge inequality’ in capital, while Lithuanian males live shortest livesMen from west London, one of the wealthiest areas of the UK, have the longest life expectancy of males in Europe with a newborn baby expected to live to the age of 82, according to statistics published to mark International Men’s Day.The data from the EU department Eurostat suggests that only men from the city centre of the Spanish capital, Madrid, tend to live as long as the fortunate subset of Londoners.Prof Michael Marmot, a former government adviser and the author of a landmark report on life expectancy in 2010, warned, however, against characterising west London as a place of privilege.“There is huge inequality,” Marmot said. “At the time of the Grenfell Tower disaster the median income in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea was £32,700-a-year. The mean was £123,000-a-year. And the life expectancy for men in the area around Grenfell Tower was 14 years lower than for men in the richest part of the borough.”
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