Asthma in Missouri: recent trends and sociodemographic risk factors.
This study describes recent trends in asthma morbidity and mortality rates across Missouri, and identifies several population-based risk factors that account for the geographic variation in asthma hospitalizations and emergency room visits among counties. The percentage of African-American residents was the best predictor of high asthma treatment rates, explaining 77% of the variation in hospitalizations and 57% of the variation in ER visits. All other sociodemographic predictors combined explained less than 10% of the statewide variation in rates.
Indiana University, Evansville, USA.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001249:Asthma / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology; D002648:Child; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008923:Missouri / Q000453:epidemiology; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012307:Risk Factors; D017062:Small-Area Analysis