Asthma is a common chronic disease in children and adults characterised by airway inflammation and increased mucus production—leading to airway obstruction (Khalili et al.2018). It is estimated by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that 6.8% of US working adults have current...
United States were examined among birth cohorts participating in the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO)6 and Children’s Respiratory and Environmental Workgroup (CREW)7 consortiums, and differential rates of asthma incidence were identified by age, sex, race, and calendar years....
Included were fee-for-service, primary care case management, and encounter claims as reported by the states. Race/ethnicity rates, odds ratios and p values for ambulatory care (combined visits to providers including clinics, nurses, outpatient hospital and doctor's office) will be reported for ...
Evaluating incidence rates can provide critical clues about factors that are temporally associated with the development of asthma. Two recent publications assessed incidence data for US children stratified by age, family history, sex, race, and ethnicity. In the Environment and Child Health Outcomes (...
of child health conditions were used to assign school-age children (5 to 17 years old) into one of four groups: children without reported chronic conditions; children with asthma alone; children with asthma and additional reported chronic conditions; and children with the same chronic conditions, ...
Asthma in homeless children is also likely to be severe and substantially undertreated. There is substantial evidence that in the United States there are excessively high rates of asthma among children of color, especially among those who live in urban medically underserved communities and whose ...
Asthma is a heterogeneous disease with a sexual dimorphism in prevalence that changes throughout life. As children, boys are more likely than girls to have asthma, but as adults women are more likely than men to have asthma. The prevalence of asthma in f
Overweight, race, and psychological distress in children in the Childhood Asthma Management Program. 12 years) enrolled in the Childhood Asthma Management Program and seen for repeated visits over 4 1/2 years.Baseline rates of overweight (BMI for age:... BG Bender,A Fuhlbrigge,N Walders,......
Overall, 13.9% of students had diagnosed asthma. For children aged 6 to 12 years, rates of diagnosed asthma varied from 13.1% to 14.5%, whereas the rates of possible undiagnosed asthma varied from 14.8% to 10.9%. The rate of diagnosed asthma was 21.2% for African Americans, 9.7% for ...
Current Asthma Rates by Race/Ethnicity Blacks and American Indian/Alaska Natives have the highest current asthma rates compared to other races and ethnicities. ... Hispanics (6.4%) and Asians (4.0%) had lower current asthma prevalence rates than other racial and ethnic groups. ...