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Where You are Born Significantly Influences Asthma Risk
In a study, the researchers found that within one inner-city population, blacks born in the US were more prone to have asthma than blacks that were born outside of the United States.
"Within Asian and Hispanic populations, there is research that indicates that asthma varies between those who are born in the U.S. and those who are foreign-born. There is currently no research that we found that describes asthma prevalence among black/African-American subpopulations in the U.S.," said first author Doug Brugge, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Public Health and Family Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston.
Collaborating with researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine, the Boston Urban Asthma Coalition (BUAC) implemented the project in Dorchester in response to parents who wanted to determine how asthma affects their community.
They recruited 18 years and older adults from various locations in Dorchester to participate in the oral survey. If the recruited adults had children, they answered asthma-related questions about their children.
The survey included questions from asthma screening questionnaires used and validated by other organizations and research studies. Questions included place of birth as well as questions related to occurrence of asthma symptoms (e.g., chest tightness, wheezing, family history of asthma, allergies, etc.) and environmental factors that would lead to asthma (e.g., maternal smoking during pregnancy, mold growth in the home, vehicle traffic near home, etc.)
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