GotSteel
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ORIGINAL: Owner59 I`m so glad Mittens stepped up and acknowledged that the African American community suffers disproportionately more than other Americans....thus starting a long needed discussion as to why this is so.A bit late but any sincere discussion is welcome. For example.....black children suffer 4 times more from asthma and disproportionately more from many other illnesses. This kind of disproportionate suffering by African Americans is historic and age-old.....certainly not as the kooks are implying...that it`s b/c of Barack Obama that blacks suffer more.... So......why do blacks suffer more,gain less and do worse than other Americans? I hope that it`s a serious discussion and don`t include brutal insults, like the ones Mitt made. In the example of asthma you raised the cause is just plain urban living. We have cities where the air quality is so bad that there are warnings not to go outside some days, it turns out huffing exhaust fumes is actually bad for you. Since a much larger percentage of african americans live in cities than the percentage of caucasians this will disproportionally effect african americans. quote:
ORIGINAL: http://ajrccm.atsjournals.org/content/162/3/873.full Black children had higher rates of asthma than did white children in unadjusted analyses, but after controlling for multiple factors, black race was not a significant correlate of asthma (adjusted odds ratio = 0.87, 95% CI = 0.63 to 1.21). Compared with nonurban white children, urban children, both black and white, were at significantly increased risk of asthma: urban and black (adjusted OR = 1.45, 95% CI = 1.14 to 1.86), urban and white (adjusted OR = 1.22, 95% CI = 1.01 to 1.48), whereas nonurban black children were not: nonurban and black (adjusted OR = 1.15, 95% CI = 0.83 to 1.61). Similarly, compared with nonurban, nonpoor children, urban and poor (adjusted OR = 1.44, 95% CI = 1.05 to 1.95), urban and nonpoor (adjusted OR = 1.22, 95% CI = 1.004 to 1.48), urban children, both poor and nonpoor, were at significantly increased risk of asthma, whereas nonurban poor children were not: nonurban and poor (adjusted OR = 1.03, 95% CI = 0.72 to 1.48). These results suggest that the higher prevalence of asthma among black children is not due to race or to low income per se, and that all children living in an urban setting are at increased risk for asthma.
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