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Asthma Delay in African Americans

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African American children with asthma suffer from poorly controlled asthma longer than white children.

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" African American children are suffering from poorly controlled asthma longer than Caucasian children according to a new study. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University bound the by the time you were seen by a common knowledge it. African American children had more ER visit hospitalization. And had -- lung function than their white counterparts. The baby findings showed the need for standard I think in the criteria used to determine which kids to be referred to a specialist."

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