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City living can make asthma worse for poor children, study finds

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“‘Our findings serve as evidence that there are differences between risk factors linked to developing asthma and those linked to making asthma worse if you already have it,’ says Corinne Keet, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the paper’s lead author.

To the researchers’ knowledge, few previous studies have been conducted on a national level to determine the effects of inner-city living on both asthma prevalence and severity. While Keet’s previous work published in 2015 using a national survey showed that living in an urban area was not a risk factor for having asthma, that study didn’t allow for analysis of asthma morbidity.”

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