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Black Children, Teens More Likely to Return to Hospital for Asthma: Study – HealthDay


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Black Children, Teens More Likely to Return to Hospital for Asthma: Study
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3, 2014 (HealthDay News) — Financial and social hardships are the major reasons black children and teens are twice as likely as whites to be readmitted to the hospital for asthma, a new study suggests. Researchers looked at nearly 800 asthma patients, …
Hardships explain much of hospital asthma readmissions among black children …EurekAlert (press release)
Study: African-American kids twice as likely to be readmitted to a hospital …WCPO

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Hardships explain much of hospital asthma readmissions among black children … – EurekAlert (press release)

Hardships explain much of hospital asthma readmissions among black children …
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Black children are twice as likely as white children to be readmitted to the hospital for asthma – a disparity due in large part to a greater burden of financial and social hardships, according to a new study. Researchers at Cincinnati Children's …

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Hardships explain much of hospital asthma readmissions among black children … – Medical Xpress

Hardships explain much of hospital asthma readmissions among black children …
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Black children are twice as likely as white children to be readmitted to the hospital for asthma – a disparity due in large part to a greater burden of financial and social hardships, according to a new study. Researchers at Cincinnati Children's …

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Obese Children More Susceptible to Asthma from Air Pollution – Science Daily (press release)

Obese Children More Susceptible to Asthma from Air Pollution
Science Daily (press release)
Jan. 22, 2014 — Obese children exposed to high levels of air pollutants were nearly three times as likely to have asthma, compared with non-obese children and lower levels of pollution exposure, report researchers at Columbia University Medical Center …

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Obese children more susceptible to asthma from air pollution – EurekAlert (press release)

Obese children more susceptible to asthma from air pollution
EurekAlert (press release)
Obese children exposed to high levels of air pollutants were nearly three times as likely to have asthma, compared with non-obese children and lower levels of pollution exposure, report researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC). Rates of …

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