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Living in redlined areas associated with lower lung function in those with asthma


Living in redlined areas associated with lower lung function in those with asthma
Individuals with asthma who live in redlined neighborhoods have worse lung function than those in locales that excluded Black people and benefited from decades of inequitable wealth accumulation at the expense of Black communities in the United States, according to research presented at the ATS 2021 International Conference.
Alexander Schuyler, MD/PhD candidate, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Sally Wenzel, MD, director, Asthma & Environmental Lung Health Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, sought to examine the connection between residence in historically redlined communities and the impact on lung function and asthma outcomes. Redlining is a form of institutional racism and discriminatory mortgage lending practice enacted by the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation in the New Deal era that resulted in racialized economic deprivation and segregation. These histori ....

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Christmas Eve coke works fire followed by asthma exacerbations


University of Pittsburgh
Asthma exacerbations rose following a catastrophic Christmas Eve fire two years ago that destroyed pollution controls at the Clairton Coke Works–the largest such facility in the nation, a University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health analysis concludes.
The study, published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, was possible because of a collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh Asthma and Environmental Lung Health Institute at UPMC and the Allegheny County Health Department, with funding from The Heinz Endowments.
“In addition to verifying that people living within a 10-mile radius of the coke works had higher rates of asthma exacerbations and use of albuterol rescue medication than those living outside the radius, we learned that nearly half of the people with asthma closest to the fire were unaware of the pollution problem and, therefore, unable to take steps to avoid exposure,” said lead author Brandy Byr ....

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