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Medical Xpress |
Asthma rates among black youth are similarly high in urban, rural communities
Medical Xpress About 15 percent of Detroit's black inner city youth have diagnosed asthma and another 8 percent undiagnosed disease, according to a study in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Rates are 13.7 percent and 7.5 percent, respectively, in rural … |
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Fox News |
Pool Chemicals May Explain Higher Rates Of Asthma Among Endurance …
Huffington Post A long-term study would help distinguish "between athletes with asthma who self-select to swimming and those who have asthma as a result of exposure to endurance training practices," said lead author Dr. Margo Mountjoy of McMaster University Waterloo … Asthma very common among Olympic-level swimmers |
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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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Investigational Asthma Treatment Cuts Exacerbation Rates in Half
Pharmacy Times (registration) The study compared the anti-interleukin-5 (IL-5) monoclonal antibody, reslizumab, with placebo in 953 patients with both asthma and elevated blood eosinophil levels. The research team found that patients treated with reslizumab in the first study … |
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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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Florida Times-Union |
Some Jacksonville neighborhoods have rates of asthma like the Third World
Florida Times-Union Yet what Seymour's findings reveal, again, is that asthma isn't just a matter of people not being aware of why they are ill or people smoking or people neglecting to take their medications. It is also a matter of people in poor, mostly-black … |
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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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