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Study compares combination treatments for black adults with asthma
Medical Xpress Among black adults with asthma treated with an inhaled corticosteroid, adding a long-acting beta-agonist did not improve the time to an asthma exacerbation compared with adding the anticholinergic tiotropium, according to a study in the October 27 … |
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In New York City's black neighborhoods, poverty, housing issues, and asthma go …
Grist The profiles detail the poverty rate, access to health care, life expectancy, strokes, asthma, mental illness, and cause of death for each neighborhood's population. They reveal the stark reality of how health in New York varies along race and income … |
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Black children with asthma less likely to respond to intramuscular steroid
Healio Sergio Koo, MPH, of Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust in London, and colleagues evaluated 79 children with severe therapy-resistant asthma for several factors, including assessment of steroid response. Fifty-four (68%) of these children … |
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Cadet had severe asthma attack before death
Black Press The family of a 13-year-old air cadet who died at a Nova Scotia military base earlier this month says he had a sudden and severe asthma attack. In a statement released through the Department of National Defence, the family of Gabriel Comeau says the … Cadet who died at Nova Scotia base suffered asthma attack: family Gabriel Comeau died of asthma attack while at air cadet camp, says family |
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Clinton accurately says black children with asthma have 500% higher mortality rate
PolitiFact Asthma is a chronic lung disease — an inflammation of the airways that causes coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath. Around 25 million Americans have asthma, and the rate of asthmatics has been steadily increasing since the early 1980s. Some Good News About American Children |
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Asthma rates similar for black youth in urban, rural settings
Healio “Many studies have focused on the increased prevalence and greater morbidity of asthma among both adults and children in impoverished urban areas,” Dennis R. Ownby, MD, of the department of pediatrics at the Medical College of Georgia, and colleagues … |
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Asthma Rates Similar Among Black Children in Urban, Rural Areas: Study
HealthDay THURSDAY, April 9, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Asthma rates are essentially identical among black children living in Detroit and rural Georgia, researchers report. The finding challenges the common belief that living in a city boosts the chances of … |
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Asthma Rates Similar Among Black Children in Urban, Rural Areas: Study
U.S. News & World Report THURSDAY, April 9, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Asthma rates are essentially identical among black children living in Detroit and rural Georgia, researchers report. The finding challenges the common belief that living in a city boosts the chances of … |
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Asthma rates among black youth are similarly high in urban, rural communities
Medical Xpress About 15 percent of Detroit's black inner city youth have diagnosed asthma and another 8 percent undiagnosed disease, according to a study in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Rates are 13.7 percent and 7.5 percent, respectively, in rural … |
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Condition: Asthma
Intervention: Dietary Supplement: Black seed oil
Sponsors: University College, London; King Abdulaziz University
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