Asthma

A new Princeton University study links childhood asthma and residential segregation.

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Hundreds of things can trigger allergic reactions and asthma. And more than 50 million Americans have some type of allergy, according to the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, and about 25 million Americans have asthma, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The number one thing to help fight […]

African-American youth are twice as likely as Whites to be readmitted to the hospital for treatment of asthma, according to a new study by Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, reports WCPO Cincinnati. SEE ALSO: ‘Structural Racism’ Blamed For Severe Health Disparities In Minnesota An estimated 23 percent of Black children were rehospitalized for asthma within a year, […]

A study released by Boston University researchers have linked the experience of racism to cases of adult-onset asthma in African-American women. The study, released by the school’s Slone Epidemiology Center (SEC), says Black women who experienced frequent instances of racism were more likely to develop the lung condition in their adult years when compared to […]

Geneticists in the U.S. have identified a set of “trans-ethnic” genes uniquely linked to Asthma in African-Americans. The findings, which are featured in the latest issue of Nature Genetics, are said to be a significant advance in the efforts to determine the roots of Asthma. “These results suggest that some asthma susceptibility loci are robust […]