Study: Socioeconomic, other risk factors explain racial disparity in asthma readmissions
African-American children were more than twice as likely as white children to be readmitted to an urban children鈥檚 hospital for asthma between August 2010 and October 2011, with socioeconomic and other risk factors accounting for virtually all of the difference, according to a study published today by JAMA Pediatrics. 鈥淎frican-American children significantly differed with respect to nearly every measured biologic, environmental, disease management, access, and socioeconomic hardship variable,鈥 the authors said. 鈥淪ocioeconomic hardship variables explained 53% of the observed disparity.鈥 The study was part of the Greater Cincinnati Asthma Risks Study.
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