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Researchers Rethink Inner-City Asthma Theory
U.S. News & World Report TUESDAY, Jan. 20, 2015 (HealthDay News) — A new study challenges the widely held belief that inner-city children have a higher risk of asthma simply because of where they live. Race, ethnicity and income have much stronger effects on asthma risk than … |
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Researchers Rethink Inner-City Asthma Theory
WebMD 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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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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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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Asthmatics At Greater Risk Of Developing Obstructive Sleep Apnea Researchers …
Lung Disease News Sleep Apnea An Original Investigation paper published in the January 13 issue of JAMA – The Journal Of The American Medical Association reports that sleep study participants who were also asthmatic were observed to be at increased risk for developing … Asthma Linked With Increased Obstructive Sleep Apnea Risk |
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Researchers dismiss causal link between antibiotics treatment and childhood …
News-Medical.net In a new register study in the scientific journal BMJ, researchers at Karolinska Institutet are able to dismiss previous claims that there is a link between the increased use of antibiotics in society and a coinciding rise in childhood asthma. The … |
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Asthma linked to cardiovascular disease, but cause eludes researchers
Reading Eagle People who are treated for asthma are at substantially higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease, according to two research papers presented Sunday. However, researchers don't know whether it is asthma or asthma medications that are behind the … |
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Researchers uncover more detail of the molecular triggers behind asthma attacks
Imperial College London A new study has tracked the molecular events that happen during asthma attacks to help explain how a common cold can trigger these attacks. Published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the research used novel sampling … |
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Researchers Pinpoint Novel Asthma Treatment Target
HCPLive Existing medication containing inhaled steroids, are highly effective at controlling regular asthma symptoms, but during an attack the symptoms worsen and can lead to the patient going to hospital,” commented Sebastian Johnston of the National Heart … |
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Researchers find new clues to how common cold can trigger asthma
News-Medical.net Researchers have identified a molecular mechanism that could explain why the common cold can bring on life-threatening asthma attacks. Published today in Science Translational Medicine, the findings indicate this may be a potential target for new drugs … Common cold 'triggers asthma attack' |
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