Racial disparities in asthma-related health care use in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Severe Asthma Research Program.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite advances in asthma care, disparities persist. Black patients are disproportionally affected by asthma and also have poorer outcomes compared with white patients.

Objective

We sought to determine associations between black and white patients and asthma-related health care use, accounting for complex relationships.

Methods

This study was completed as part of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Severe Asthma Research Program, a prospective observational cohort. Between November 2012 and February 2015, it enrolled 579 participants 6 years and older with 1 year of observation time and complete data. Inverse probability of treatment weighting was used to balance racial groups with respect to community and family socioeconomic variables and env

SUBMITTER: Fitzpatrick AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6556425 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature