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Design & Trend |
Living In The Inner City May Have No Effect On Asthma Development
Design & Trend A new study has found evidence that contradicts decades of assumptions that living in the city causes asthma. Being poor, black or Puerto Rican, however, has more effect on whether a child develops asthma, according to researchers at John Hopkins in … |
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Maine Public Broadcasting |
The Inner City Might Not Be To Blame For High Asthma Rates
Maine Public Broadcasting 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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WTOP |
Johns Hopkins University study: Living in inner city not biggest asthma risk
WTOP WASHINGTON — A new study out of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore says that income, race and ethnicity play more of a role in a child's asthma risk than where he lives. Researchers say that being poor, black or Puerto Rican are the most important … |
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NPR (blog) |
The Inner City Might Not Be To Blame For High Asthma Rates
NPR (blog) Asthma affects children regardless of where they live and whether they are rich or poor. But scientists have long thought that living in poor urban neighborhoods adds an extra risk for this troublesome lung inflammation. A new study suggests that's not … ?Researchers challenge inner-city asthma theory Asthma is not more prevalent in the inner city, researchers say As the poor move from cities, asthma goes with them |
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Asthma is not more prevalent in the inner city, researchers say
Washington Post 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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Milwaukee Business Journal |
UW awarded $70 million to continue asthma research in inner city
UW Badger Herald A longstanding University of Wisconsin project researching asthma in people living in the inner city got a $70 million grant, marking the largest award ever for the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. The grant will be used to continue research … UW Med School to use $70 million grant to study asthma UW-Madison awarded $70M NIH grant for asthma research Record grant will continue inner-city asthma research |
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Mice Are Top Inner City Asthma Driver
MedPage Today Although cockroaches have long been considered the key driver of high asthma rates in inner cities, mouse allergens correlated better with asthma severity and outcomes, a study of Baltimore children showed. Whereas children in Baltimore with asthma … |
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Inner City Infants Have Different Patterns of Viral Respiratory Illness Than …
Infection Control Today Children living in low-income urban areas appear especially prone to developing asthma, possibly related to infections they acquire early in life. In a new study in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, researchers from the University of Wisconsin in … |
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Inner city infants have different patterns of viral respiratory illness than …
Science Codex Children living in low-income urban areas appear especially prone to developing asthma, possibly related to infections they acquire early in life. In a new study in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, available online, researchers from the University … |
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 Scientific American |
Pollution, Poverty and People of Color: Asthma and the Inner City
Scientific American Seven million children now suffer from asthma–and they are disproportionately poor. |
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