Although most (92%) children had current health insurance coverage that paid some portion of asthma-related medical expenses (with 97% covered by Medicaid/MassHealth during the past year), for 28% of children, the caregiver reported having no doctor to call other than the emergency room for asthma care.
Nevertheless, there is large inter-individual variability [ 3] and a portion of children with asthma will remain uncontrolled despite intensive treatment with high dosages of inhaled corticosteroids and/or oral corticosteroids.
Children who develop asthma typically have symptoms by the age of 4 5 years, and a significant portion of them develop persistent asthma (Stein and Martinez 2004).
First, as mentioned at the beginning of Predictive models developed for bronchiolitis patients section, this subset of children not only has a high prevalence of future asthma development, but also includes a significant portion of children who will eventually develop asthma.
He went on to enumerate a list of conditions that could aggravate the effects of swine flu and that characterize a large portion of New York's population: diabetes, asthma, heart disease, lung disease, a weakened immune system and, possibly, obesity.
Furthermore, city staff members told commissioners Wednesday at the Bahia Resort Hotel in San Diego that the heavy smoke actually impeded beach access for a significant portion of the population — people with asthma, pregnant women and older adults.
The limitations of our study include that only a portion of our pregnant cohort had asthma requiring healthcare utilisation.
In the SNP-based analysis, the four GSTP1 SNPs jointly explained a statistically significant portion of the occurrence of lifetime asthma and wheezing occurrences (Table 4).
Although infection with HRV is associated with increased risk for the development of asthma [40, 43, 50], only a portion of children exposed go on to develop the disease suggesting that the host genotype likely plays a role [43].
