Open AccessIdentification of Population Subgroups of Children and Adolescents With High Asthma Prevalence
Author(s) -
Michael A. Rodríguez,
Marilyn A. Winkleby,
David K. Ahn,
Jan Sundquist,
Helena C. Kraemer
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
archives of pediatrics and adolescent medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3628
pISSN - 1072-4710
DOI - 10.1001/archpedi.156.3.269
Subject(s) - asthma , medicine , confidence interval , demography , national health and nutrition examination survey , odds ratio , population , body mass index , ethnic group , percentile , hay fever , pediatrics , environmental health , statistics , mathematics , sociology , anthropology
To provide national estimates of asthma prevalence in African-American, Mexican American and white (non-Latino) children and adolescents using several common definitions; to evaluate familial, sociodemographic, and environmental risk factors that are independently associated with current asthma in children; and to identify subgroups at particular risk for current asthma using 2 complementary data analytic approaches.
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