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Severity of Childhood Asthma by Socioeconomic Status

Author(s) -

Andreas Mielck,

Peter Reitmeir,

Matthias Wjst

Publication year - 1996

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/25.2.388

Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , asthma , medicine , odds ratio , confidence interval , social class , demography , epidemiology , pediatrics , odds , environmental health , population , logistic regression , sociology , political science , law

A review of studies on the association between childhood asthma and socioeconomic status (SES) in industrialized countries leads to the conclusion that there does not seem to be a clear association. A study from Aberdeen published 25 years ago, however, shows that among children with asthma, severe asthma is most prevalent in the lower social class, but this distinction between grades of asthma severity has been largely ignored since.

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