Reveals that the percentage of children with asthma has increased in 2001, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's second report on environmental threats to children's health. Factors contributing to the increase; Effect of environmental contaminants on children's health.EBSCO_Asp...
For the study, the researchers measured neighborhood conditions using the Child Opportunity Index and the Social Vulnerability Index. These link residential addresses at birth, infancy and early childhood, through age 4.8 years, to census-tract data. The Child Opportunity Index, which measures...
These link residential addresses at birth, infancy and early childhood, through age 4.8 years, to census-tract data.The Child Opportunity Index, which measures neighborhood resources and conditions deemed essential for healthy child development, showed significant associations with childhood asthma incidence...
Childhood asthma has made headlines in recent years because of an upward trend in the number of cases. That may have changed: A government study published in the journalPediatricsshows asthma rates may be leveling off or declining, but not for poor children. Researchers at the National Center f...
be true, but I am not as certain. Imagine thatinfant deathsfrompneumonia, which were common in the past, were dramatically reduced. It seems to me that you would then have a pool of children, rarely surviving in the past, now living through childhood, perhaps with weaker respiratory systems...
Asthma is one of the leading causes of chronic illness among children and the most commonly reported cause of childhood disability. Rates of childhood asthma in the US have been increasing over the last several decades such that the rise in asthma prevalence has been labeled as an epidemic. The...
Childhood overweight increases hospital admission rates for asthma. Pediatrics 2007; 120: 734–740. Article PubMed Google Scholar Kavanagh C, Saglani S, Wilson N, Bush A . Management of children and adolescents with difficult asthma: experience of a tertiary referral centre. Arch Dis Child 2006...
Introduction Asthma is the most common chronic condition of childhood. Urban, minority children from families of lower socioeconomic status have disproportionately higher rates of asthma and worse outcomes. We investigated the association between the presence of asthma and asthma severity among American, ...
"We've long suspected there was a link between the anti-inflammatory properties of long-chain omega-3 fats, the low intakes of omega-3 in Western diets and the rising rates of childhood asthma," said lead author Hans Bisgaard, professor at the University of Copenhagen. "This study proves ...
Numerous surveys of school-aged children have shown increasing asthma prevalence with a less publicized but noticeable change in the male to female ratio. We sought to confirm this change in the sex ratio in four questionnaire-based surveys and investigate possible explanations. Identical questionnaire...