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Areas With High Rates of Police-Reported Violent Crime Have Higher Rates of Childhood Asthma Morbidity

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AF Beck, B Huang, PH Ryan, MT Sandel, C Chen, RS Kahn. J Pediatr. 2016;173:175–82 To assess the association between population-level violent (and all) crime rates and population-level childhood asthma… Click to show full abstract

AF Beck, B Huang, PH Ryan, MT Sandel, C Chen, RS Kahn. J Pediatr. 2016;173:175–82 To assess the association between population-level violent (and all) crime rates and population-level childhood asthma utilization and patient-level risk of asthma reutilization after hospitalization. Four thousand six hundred and thirty-eight children aged 2 to 17 years who visited the emergency department (ED) or were hospitalized for asthma at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center between January 1, 2011, and December 31, 2013. In this retrospective cohort study, we identified subjects by using diagnosis code 493.XX and classified them …

Keywords: childhood asthma; areas high; violent crime; rates police; high rates

Journal Title: Pediatrics
Year Published: 2017

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