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Study Questions Link Between Asthma and City Living – TIME


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Study Questions Link Between Asthma and City Living
TIME
That's why a new study, published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, is so surprising. The findings, which come from a study of 23,000 U.S. children, show that income and race are much greater risk factors for asthma than where a child …
The City Might Not Be To Blame For High Asthma RatesNPR (blog)
Researchers debunk the idea that asthma is more common in inner citiesLos Angeles Times
Inner-City Asthma Risk Overrated?MedPage Today
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Big city life may not be a key asthma risk: US study – Reuters

Big city life may not be a key asthma risk: US study
Reuters
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The simple fact of growing up in a big city may not be a major factor in whether a child develops asthma, according to a new study that contradicts decades of public health assumptions about the so-called inner city asthma epidemic.
Asthma is not more prevalent in the inner city, researchers sayWashington Post
Public Release: 20-Jan-2015 Time to rethink the inner-city asthma epidemic?EurekAlert (press release)
Researchers Rethink Inner-City Asthma TheoryPhilly.com

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