Understanding racial disparities in childhood asthma using individual- and neighborhood-level risk factors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Racial disparities in childhood asthma outcomes result from a complex interplay of individual- and neighborhood-level factors.

Objectives

We sought to examine racial disparities in asthma-related emergency department (ED) visits between African American (AA) and European American (EA) children.

Methods

This is a retrospective study of patients younger than 18 years who visited the ED at Cincinnati Children's for asthma from 2009 to 2018. The outcome was number of ED visits during a year. We assessed 11 social, economic, and environmental variables. Mediation and mixed-effects analyses were used to assess relationships between race, mediators, and number of ED visits.

Results

A total of 31,114 children (46.1% AA, 53.9% EA) had 186,779 asthma-related E

SUBMITTER: Correa-Agudelo E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9887733 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature