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Condition: Asthma
Intervention: Other: Home-based Intervention
Sponsors: Baylor College of Medicine; Harris County Hospital District; Houston Department of Health & Human Services; Prairie View A&M University; M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
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Researchers evaluate treatment guidelines for African Americans with asthma
News-Medical.net In a first-of-its-kind clinical trial, asthma researchers at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital (UH Rainbow) will evaluate treatment guidelines for African American children and young adults with asthma. "Each year African … |
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St. Louis docs investigate better asthma control for African Americans
St. Louis American Doctors at Washington University and St. Louis Children's Hospital are part of a nationwide study to find out how to help black patients maintain better control with low-dose medication – and for good reason: asthma has a significant impact on the … |
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Depression Linked to Asthma Onset in African American Women
BU Today “The hypothesized mechanism linking depressive symptoms to asthma incidence is stress and its physiological consequences—particularly, effects on the immune system and the airways,” says study lead author Patricia Coogan (SPH'87,'96), an SPH … |
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Which Asthma Drugs, Dosages Work Best for African Americans?
Newswise (press release) Newswise — The University of Illinois at Chicago has received funding from the National Institutes of Health to determine what combination and dosages of asthma medications works best to manage asthma in African Americans, who suffer much higher rates … |
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Which asthma drugs, dosages work best for African Americans?
Medical Xpress The University of Illinois at Chicago has received funding from the National Institutes of Health to determine what combination and dosages of asthma medications works best to manage asthma in African Americans, who suffer much higher rates of serious … |
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BCM Receives Grant For Asthma Control Research Program Among African …
BioNews Texas The research grant will provide more than $2 million over three years to test effectiveness of a home-based environmental intervention program aimed at improving asthma control and quality of life among African-American adults in the Houston area … |
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Grant funds program to improve asthma control among African Americans in …
Baylor College of Medicine News “Asthma imposes a disproportionate burden on the area's African-American population, and environmental factors play an important role. This effort is noteworthy because it has the capacity—through extensive use of electronic medical records and close … |
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High asthma rates in African Americans due to African genetic ancestry
Examiner.com Birmingham Alabama has been determined to have one of the highest asthma rates per capita in the United States by the American Lung Association. The culprit is soot from pollution. High particle size pollution is the major component of soot. … |
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Hopkins to study genetics of asthma in African Americans
Baltimore Sun By Andrea K. Walker, The Baltimore Sun Johns Hopkins researchers, in the largest study to date, will map the genetic code for asthma in people of African descent in hopes of better understanding why the disease and other allergy-related ailments … $9.5 Million Federal Grant to Support "Asthma Genome" Project with African … Johns Hopkins wins $8.5M to study asthma among blacks |
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