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City Life Is Not an Asthma Risk Factor, Race and Poverty Are
Capital OTC City Life Is Not an Asthma Risk Factor, Race and Poverty Are A recent research paper shows that asthma doesn't necessarily thrive in poor and densely populated areas of inner cities. The findings revealed that people living in urban neighborhoods don't … |
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City life doesn't affect asthma rates as formerly thought
Mother Nature Network (blog) Asthma is a growing epidemic in the U.S. Currently 6.8 million kids have been diagnosed with the condition, a number that experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention think will only continue to rise. It has long been thought that urban … |
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Tech Times |
Study Casts Doubt on Relationship Between City Living and Asthma
Tech Times Elizabeth Matsui, M.D., M.H.S., a pediatrics and epidemiology associate professor and pediatric asthma specialist from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and senior author for the study, however, cautions against focusing on inner cities … |
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Study shows asthma is not more prevalent in the inner city
STLtoday.com For more than 50 years, researchers have described childhood asthma as a plague of the inner city — urban areas where 20 percent or more of the population lives below the poverty line. But a new study by researchers from Johns Hopkins University … |
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NPR (blog) |
Johns Hopkins experts challenge belief that city living raises asthma risk
The Hub at Johns Hopkins Challenging the long-standing belief that city dwellers suffer disproportionately from asthma, the results of a new Johns Hopkins Children's Center study of more than 23,000 U.S. children reveal that income, race, and ethnic origin may play far more … The City Might Not Be To Blame For High Asthma Rates Study Questions Link Between Asthma and City Living Researchers debunk the idea that asthma is more common in inner cities |
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Headlines & Global News |
Asthma Might Not Be Linked To Polluted City Air After All: Finding Suggests …
Headlines & Global News The findings revealed 13 percent of inner-city participants had asthma, compared with 11 percent of children living in less urban areas, but this difference disappeared once the researchers factored in "race, ethnicity and geographic region in their … |
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NPR (blog) |
Study Questions Link Between Asthma and City Living
TIME That's why a new study, published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, is so surprising. The findings, which come from a study of 23,000 U.S. children, show that income and race are much greater risk factors for asthma than where a child … The City Might Not Be To Blame For High Asthma Rates Researchers debunk the idea that asthma is more common in inner cities Inner-City Asthma Risk Overrated? |
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Yahoo News |
Big city life may not be a key asthma risk: US study
Yahoo News CHICAGO (Reuters) – The simple fact of growing up in a big city may not be a major factor in whether a child develops asthma, according to a new study that contradicts decades of public health assumptions about the so-called inner city asthma epidemic. |
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Study shows asthma is not more prevalent in the inner city
Boston Globe For more than 50 years, researchers have described childhood asthma as a plague of the inner city — urban areas where 20 percent or more of the population lives below the poverty line. But a new study by researchers from Johns Hopkins University … |
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Medical Daily |
Asthma Moves To The Suburbs: Inner City No Longer Epicenter Of High Asthma …
Medical Daily "Our findings suggest that focusing on inner cities as the epicenters of asthma may lead physicians and public health experts to overlook newly emerging 'hot zones' with high asthma rates," Dr. Elizabeth Matsui, senior author and associate professor at … |
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