Exposure to community violence is associated with asthma hospitalizations and emergency department visits

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 552-557

  Apter, Andrea J ^a   Garcia, Laura A ^a   Boyd, Rhonda C ^a   Wang, Xingmei ^a   Bogen, Daniel K ^b   Ten Have, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; community violence; emergency department visits; inner city asthma; quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FIGHTING; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GANG; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEXUAL CRIME; SOUTH AMERICA; THEFT; VIOLENCE; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ETHNOLOGY; HISPANIC; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASTHMA; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VIOLENCE;

EID: 77956386523     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2010.07.014     Document Type: Article

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