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MLive.com |
Ventilator race helps Jackson College students raise funds for kids with asthma
MLive.com JACKSON, MI – Jackson College respiratory care students raced ventilators to raise funds for Camp Michi-MAC on Thursday, Nov. 5. The 5-kilometer race also commemorated National Respiratory Care Week Oct. 25-31. Two teams of students – Albuterol … |
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Health disparities: Race and asthma
Journalist’s Resource The prevalence of asthma also differs by race. Studies consistently demonstrate that asthma – a chronic lung disease that affects about 1 in 12 people — is more likely to affect blacks than whites and is less common among Hispanics. A limited number … |
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Poverty, race drive asthma rates more than city living
Buffalo News For the past 50 years, scientists also believed urban living led to higher rates of asthma in children. But new research from Johns Hopkins Children's Center disputes the notion that geography alone is a major risk factor for the disease and its … |
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Waterbury Republican American |
Poverty, race drive asthma rates
Waterbury Republican American Faith Walker, 7, who has asthma, readies to take a breathing test as Monique Franklin, research assistant, coaches her on Jan. 23, 2015 at Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins research shows that poverty, more than race … |
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Poverty, race drive asthma rates
The Salinas Californian For the past 50 years, scientists also believed urban living led to higher rates of asthma in children. But new research from Johns Hopkins Children's Center disputes the notion that geography alone is a major risk factor for the disease and its … |
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Memphis Commercial Appeal |
Poverty, race drive asthma rates more than city living, research shows
Memphis Commercial Appeal There are, however, pockets around the country in suburban and rural areas where the prevalence of asthma is just as high, according to the study, recently published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. The common links among 23,000 … |
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Arizona Daily Sun |
Poverty, race drive asthma rates more than city living
Arizona Daily Sun For the past 50 years, scientists also believed urban living led to higher rates of asthma in children. But new research from Johns Hopkins Children's Center disputes the notion that geography alone is a major risk factor for the disease and its … |
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Poverty, race drive asthma rates more than city living
Medical Xpress Her mother, Tyishia Walker, who suffers from asthma and has an older daughter with the disease, knew exactly what was wrong: Faith also had the chronic lung condition. "I'm sure it's from living in the city," said Tyishia Walker." We have more rats … |
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Baltimore Sun |
Poverty, race drive asthma rates more than city living
Baltimore Sun Her mother, Tyishia Walker, who suffers from asthma and has an older daughter with the disease, knew exactly what was wrong: Faith also had the chronic lung condition. "I'm sure it's from living in the city," said Tyishia Walker."We have more rats … |
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Study shows race, ethnicity and poverty impact childhood asthma more than …
West Hawaii Today 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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