Asthma prevalence among American Indian and Alaska Native children.

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• Alternative Title:
  Public Health Rep
• Personal Author:
  Stout, J W ; Sullivan, M ; Liu, L L ; Grossman, D C
• Description:
  Although asthma is the most common chronic childhood illness in the United States, little is known about its prevalence among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) children. The authors used the latest available household survey data to estimate the prevalence of asthma in this population.|The authors analyzed data for children ages 1 through 17 years from the 1987 Survey of American Indians and Alaska Natives (SAIAN) and the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey (NMES). At least one member of each AI/AN household included in the SAIAN was eligible for services through the Indian Health Service.|The weighted prevalence of parent-reported asthma was 7.06% among 2288 AI/AN children ages 1-17 (95% CI 5.08, 9.04), compared with a US estimate of 8.40% for children ages 1-17 based on the 1987 NMES (95% CI 7.65, 9.15). The AI/AN sample was too small to yield stable estimates for a comparison between AI/AN children and all US children when the data were stratified according to household income and metropolitan vs non-metropolitan residence. The unadjusted asthma prevalence rates were similar for AI/AN children and for children in the NMES sample.|In 1987, the prevalence of parent-reported asthma was similar for AI/AN children in the SAIAN sample and for children in the NMES sample. More recent data are needed to better understand the current prevalence of asthma among AI/AN children.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Alaska Natives Asthma Child Child, Preschool Health Surveys Humans Income Indians, North American Infant Prevalence Surveys And Questionnaires

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• Source:
  Public Health Rep. 114(3):257-261
• Pubmed ID:
  10476995
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMCnull
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  5 U01 AI34578-04/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Volume:
  114
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  Public Health Reports
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:7e8f08c2100420550e87b47bda3c2460729a2c3b1124f0b099ef958054c1ae95
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/64777/cdc_64777_DS1.pdf
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