Race and sex differences in consistency of care with national asthma guidelines in managed care organizations. Arch Intern Med . 2001;161:1660-1668.Krishnan JA, Diette B, Skinner EA, et al. Race and sex differences in consistency of care with national asthma guidelines in managed care ...
We estimate the prevalence of impaired asthma control among asthmatic children in Hawaii and determine which factors are associated with impaired control.doi:10.1002/ppul.21387Brian H. WuDivision of Pediatric Pulmonary MedicineMichael D. Cabana
Asthma is the most common chronic condition among children in this country, a prevalence of 8.5% in the general population and 7+% in the Medicaid. The National Health Interview Survey and CMS Medicaid and CHIP claims data show that ambulatory health services remain markedly higher among blacks ...
by Kaiser Permanente Children and adolescents who are overweight or obese are more likely to have asthma than their healthy weight counterparts, according to a new Kaiser Permanente Southern California study published in the online edition of Obesity. The study, which included more than 681,000 ...
METHODS: Eligible individuals had a prior diagnosis of asthma, one or more ICS prescriptions, and were members of a large health maintenance organization in southeast Michigan. Individuals were sent a survey that included questions about internal factors (e.g., patient beliefs, knowledge, and ...
In these countries, the reported prevalence rates ranged from 2.79% to 3.89%. In Egypt many studies on asthma have been performed in the paediatric age groups but very few addressed the adult population and were not representative of the whole country [20]. In some areas, there is limited ...
Biomedical Ambiguity: Race, Asthma, and the Contested Meaning of Genetic Research in the Caribbean. by Ian Whitmarshtransaminasesdysferlinopathydistal myopathiesNo abstract is available for this article.doi:10.1111/amet.12015_9Robert A. Halberstein...
In adjusted models, NHB children were significantly less likely to receive a written asthma action plan (OR 0.48; 95% CI 0.31-0.76) than NHW children. In contrast, among adults, we found no statistically significant difference in the provision of asthma action plan. Additionally, we found no ...
respectively. The researchers found that during the first three years of life, mean values of pollutants were associated with the incidence of asthma. Among children younger than 5 years and younger than 12 years, a one interquartile range (IQR) increase in NO2was associated with increased asthm...
Age-standardised DALY rates due to asthma in both sexes decreased monotonically with rising SDI. The relation between with SDI and DALY rates due to asthma was attributed to variation in years of life lost (YLLs), whereas DALY rates due to COPD varied similarly for YLLs and years lived with...