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The widening black/white gap in asthma hospitalizations and mortality
Ruchi S. Gupta, MD, MPH, Violeta Carrión-Carire, MA, Kevin B. Weiss, MD, MPH Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Volume 117, Issue 2, Pages (February 2006) DOI: /j.jaci Copyright © 2006 American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Terms and Conditions
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Fig 1 Trends in asthma hospitalization rates and rate ratios for children ages 5 to 18 years and adults ages 19 to 34 years from 1980 through Blue lines, Black subjects; yellow lines, white subjects. Crude rates of asthma hospitalization discharges are depicted across years. Simple linear regression fits to the data across years were done by estimating trend. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology , DOI: ( /j.jaci ) Copyright © 2006 American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Terms and Conditions
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Fig 2 Trends in asthma mortality rates and rate ratios for children ages 5 to 19 years and adults ages 19 to 34 years from 1980 through Blue lines, Black subjects; orange lines, white subjects. Crude rates of asthma mortality are depicted across years. Simple linear regression fits to the data were done by estimating trends. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology , DOI: ( /j.jaci ) Copyright © 2006 American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Terms and Conditions
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