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Study shows asthma is not more prevalent in the inner city
Kankakee Daily Journal 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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Study shows asthma is not more prevalent in inner city dwellers
Bend Bulletin 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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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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Asthma Risk Isn't Increased For Inner Cities
Business 2 Community Researchers at John Hopkins University found that being poor, black, or Puerto Rican was a greater factor to determine a child's asthma risk rather than living in a city. Dr. Corinne Keet, a pediatric and allergy specialist at John Hopkins who led the … |
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NPR (blog) |
Researchers debunk the idea that asthma is more common in inner cities
Los Angeles Times For more than 50 years, the conventional wisdom about asthma has been that it thrives in poor, densely populated urban areas. Researchers have even gone so far as to declare an “inner-city asthma epidemic.” But they've never actually checked whether … The City Might Not Be To Blame For High Asthma Rates Kids' asthma risk isn't all about location Role of urban living overestimated as asthma risk factor |
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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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89.3 KPCC |
The inner city might not be to blame for high asthma rates
89.3 KPCC Dr. Stephen Teach helps Jeffery Ulmer listen to his daughter Alauna's asthmatic breathing at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Alauna's mother, Farisa, holds her. The District has one of the highest rates of pediatric asthma in the … |
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Health.com |
Living in Inner City May Not Be Key Asthma Risk Factor
Health.com Poverty increased the risk of asthma, as did being from certain racial/ethnic groups. Asthma rates were 20 percent for Puerto Ricans, 17 percent for blacks, 10 percent for whites, 9 percent for other Hispanics, and 8 percent for Asians, the study found. |
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Yahoo News |
US study finds inner city doesn't raise asthma risk
Yahoo News Instead, it found that being poor, African-American or Puerto Rican were more significant risk factors for asthma than urban living, said the findings by researchers at the John Hopkins University. The study published in the Journal of Allergy and … |
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