So sayeth the corporate overlord's mouthpiece:
"Study shows asthma is not more prevalent in the inner city" Washington Post January 21, 2015
For more than 50 years, researchers have described childhood asthma as a plague of the inner city — urban areas where 20 percent or more of the population lives below the poverty line. But a new study by researchers from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine suggests that isn’t true, and that race, ethnicity, and poverty are more closely associated with the lung disease than location in urban neighborhoods.
Actually, Johns Hopkins came under fire for reporting back in 2006 that millions of Iraqis had been killed due to U.S. invasion so I no longer believe anything they say.
When they looked at data for 23,065 children across the United States collected in the National Health Interview Survey, the researchers found that self-reported asthma attacks were distributed about equally between inner city areas and all others. More importantly, they found that ‘‘black race, Puerto Rican ethnicity, and poverty rather than residence in an urban area per se are the major risk factors for prevalent asthma.”
You didn't choke on that while inhaling, did you?
Asthma rates were high in northeastern inner cities but also high in poor suburban midwestern areas.
Meaning spewing pollution near cities did the same to the country boy.
Overall, 12.9 percent of children who live in inner cities have asthma.
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