Impact of morbidity from asthma on Afro-Americans and women; Benefit of using inhaled corticosteroids; Contribution of disparities in asthma care for Afro-Americans to race disparities.KrishnanJerry A.DietteGregory B.SkinnerElizabeth A.ClarkBecky D....
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 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...
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 ...
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...
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 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 ...
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 children between ages 6...
Data were included for 5,279 children; 24.7 and 18.1 percent had asthma by 11 and 4 years of age, 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 ...
Asthma with severe exacerbations is the most common cause of hospitalization among young children and has a severe impact on the quality of life and health care costs1,2. Exacerbations are typically triggered by respiratory infections, but the host factors causing recurrent infections and exacerbations...