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Journal Article
Results of a Home-Based Environmental Intervention among Urban Children with Asthma
2004
Overview
Asthma is the result of both genetic and environmental influences. In this multicenter, controlled study, conducted in poor, inner-city neighborhoods, a multifaceted environmental intervention helped control asthma.
In poor, inner-city neighborhoods, a multifaceted environmental intervention helped control asthma.
Inner-city children with asthma are commonly exposed to multiple indoor allergens and environmental tobacco smoke,
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exposures that may contribute to the increased asthma-related complications in this population.
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Asthma-management guidelines
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have stressed the need for environmental control measures, but there is limited evidence of their efficacy. Previous studies of environmental interventions for patients with asthma have focused on a single allergen, such as dust mites, or environmental tobacco smoke, rather than on the multiple exposures encountered by many urban children with asthma. Measures to avoid exposure to dust mites, including bedding encasement, have reduced the levels of exposure to . . .
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
Subject
Air Pollution, Indoor - adverse effects
/ Air Pollution, Indoor - prevention & control
/ Animals
/ Antigens, Dermatophagoides - adverse effects
/ Asthma
/ Asthma - prevention & control
/ Biological and medical sciences
/ Child
/ Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma
/ Dust
/ Environmental Exposure - analysis
/ Environmental Exposure - prevention & control
/ Female
/ Housing
/ Humans
/ Hygiene
/ Hypersensitivity, Immediate - prevention & control
/ Male
