Home » Research, Science, Technology

Mayo Clinic study reveals neighborhood asthma risks

6 May 2010 No Comment

Mayo center research workers recently released review information showcasing young people who lived close to significant highway or railroad intersections have much larger diagnoses of asthma. The research workers used this review to display how neighborhood environment is really a probability factor in understanding the enhancement of pediatric asthma. The review appears through the current inclusion belonging to the Journal of sensitivity and Clinical Immunology. “Using nearest propensity score, young people who lived in census tracts facing the intersection with significant highways or railways had about 40 to 70 percent increased probability of building childhood asthma,” states Young Juhn, M.D., of Mayo Clinic’s Department of Community Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. “What this tells us is that clinicians might should be involved about neighborhood environment beyond home environment to fully understand the individual asthma case.”

The review was a retrospective, population-based birth cohort where research workers studied 3,970 citizens born among 1976 and 1979 in Rochester, Minn. belonging to the 1,947 topics residing in census tracts that faced intersections, 6.4 percent developed asthma, while 4.5 percent of those residing in census tracts not facing intersections developed asthma. Dr. Juhn and his colleagues are currently conducting review that appears with the influence of neighborhood environment on other disease outcomes.

Source: Mayo Clinic

Share and Enjoy:
  • Print
  • Sphinn
  • Mixx
  • Google Bookmarks
  • Blogplay
  • Diigo
  • email
  • LinkedIn
  • Netvibes
  • PDF
  • RSS
  • Slashdot
  • Tumblr
  • Twitter
  • Upnews

Leave your response!

Add your comment below, or trackback from your own site. You can also subscribe to these comments via RSS.

Be nice. Keep it clean. Stay on topic. No spam.

This is a Gravatar-enabled weblog. To get your own globally-recognized-avatar, please register at Gravatar.