With Fresno County leading the state in asthma rates for children, a report released Tuesday has special significance.

According to researchers at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, asthma results in:

• California children missing 1.9 million days of school.
• Adult workers missing 2 million days of work.
• 475,000 children and adults in California going at least once to the emergency department or urgent care center.

Making matters worse: A lack of health insurance. Adults and children “suffer far more than they should,” according to researchers.

And you can bet children and adults are seeing doctors this week with unhealthy air settling over the Valley. Pollution is a known trigger of asthma attacks.

Check out the full report, “Uncontrolled Asthma Means Missed Work and School, Emergency Department Visits for Many Californians.”