Asthma is far more fatal in New York City than reported, contributing to nearly double the number of deaths previously attributed to the chronic lung disease every year. A Daily News analysis of information culled from death certificates shows that asthma is the primary or secondary cause of death in an average of 500 cases a year well above earlier tallies that counted only deaths in which asthma was the primary factor.The new statistics offer the fullest picture so far of the toll the...
AIR APPARENT Asthma investigators look beyond pollution for subtler risk factors.
Figuring out asthma can be like trying to learn a foreign language. Just when everything starts making sense, you get to the complicated part - say, the subjunctive tense."I'm a pulmonologist, and the more I learn about asthma, the more confused I become," said Dr. David Mannino of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If things were only more simple
THE BIG WHEEZE ASTHMA DEATHS CLIMBING, ESPECIALLY AMONG BLACKS
Asthma is one of medicine's confounding paradoxes.Researchers understand the chronic respiratory disease better than ever, and new drugs are highly effective. So why has the death rate climbed sharply, and why is asthma so much more common among blacks?Blacks are three times more likely than whites to die from asthma attacks; black males between the ages of 15 and 34 are seven times more likely to die than their white counterparts.This disproportion has been firmly...
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