High Asthma Rate Is Found in Harlem Kids
One in four children in New York City’s Harlem section has asthma -- double the rate researchers expected and one of the highest neighborhood rates in the nation, a study found.
Dr. Stephen Nicholas, who led the study, said Harlem Hospital Center staff members were alarmed at the steady stream of children who came in for asthma treatment in recent years.
The effort to test every child in a 24-block area found that 25.5% of 1,400 children under 13 had asthma. The study, funded by the nonprofit Robin Hood Foundation, began in 2001 and is continuing. About 6% of Americans have asthma.
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