School-based asthma therapy (SBAT) can help improve children’s asthma control and decrease acute health care utilization, ...

Lung function assessment factoring in race performed poorly in flagging asthma among Black children, a study showed. The 2012 Global Lung Initiative (GLI) race-specific equation failed to detect ...

Black/African American mothers of children with asthma often reported financial instability/poverty, home/caretaker instability and neighborhood disorder or violence as daily life stressors, according ...

A school-based asthma therapy program in Columbus, Ohio led to sharp reductions in ER visits, hospitalizations, and intensive ...

Children born in neighborhoods with fewer opportunities are more likely to experience repeated asthma flares requiring emergency care or medical treatment, with non-Hispanic Black children having the ...

Black children/adolescents who came to the ED for acute respiratory symptoms and tested negative for a viral infection faced ...

The school-based program had an even greater impact on Black children, who had as much as a 66% improvement in their asthma control, results show. What’s more, the program is cost-effective ...

Diagnostic procedures based on that assumption have caused asthma to be dramatically underdiagnosed among Black children, researchers reported Feb. 28 in JAMA Open Network. About 2.5 to 4 times ...

The survey shows Asthma does not strike equally across demographic groups, with 15.4 % of Black children and 9.7% of Hispanic children in Tarrant County suffering from asthma compared to 8.7% of ...

Asthma affects about 8% of Americans and is twice as common in Black children compared to white children. A study published in JAMA highlights that using race in spirometry for lung function ...