Asthma in children of Caribbean descent living in the inner-city: comparing Puerto Rican and Afro-Caribbean children.
Ethnic minority children bear a disproportionate amount of the US asthma burden. We compared asthma morbidity and pulmonary function (%FEV1) in two Caribbean groups living in the Bronx, NY: Puerto Rican and Afro-Caribbean children. Caregiver-child dyads (Puerto Rican: n = 113, M age = 9.89 ± 2.05; Afro-Caribbean: n = 47, Mage = 10.35 ± 2.08) responded to sociodemographic and asthma-related questions, and children's %FEV1was measured. Puerto Rican children had significantly greater (past year) asthma morbidity, yet there were no significant differences in %FEV1. This discrepancy between objective pulmonary function and asthma morbidity suggests the importance of considering sociocultural factors in pediatric asthma care.
a Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology , Yeshiva University , Bronx , NY , USA.
Dara M
DM
Steinberg
b Department of Pediatrics , Albert Einstein College of Medicine , Bronx , NY , USA.|c Division of Pediatric Pulmonology , Jacobi Medical Center , Bronx , NY , USA.
Denise
D
Serebrisky
a Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology , Yeshiva University , Bronx , NY , USA.|b Department of Pediatrics , Albert Einstein College of Medicine , Bronx , NY , USA.
Jonathan M
JM
Feldman
D000293:Adolescent; D001249:Asthma / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D044383:Black People / Q000208:ethnology*; D017691:Caribbean Region / Q000208:ethnology; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009519:New York City / Q000208:ethnology; D011647:Puerto Rico / Q000208:ethnology; D001741:Black or African American
Asthma; Caribbean immigrants; Pediatrics
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