Cockroach Exposure Independent of Sensitization Status and Association With Hospitalization for Asthma in Inner-City Children

Abstract

FA Rabito, J Carlson, EW Holt, S Iqbal, MA James. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2011;106(2):103–109 To examine the relationship between house dust mite, cockroach exposures and sensitization, and asthma morbidity in children in an inner-city environment. The subjects were patients from an allergy clinic ( n = 86, mostly black, aged 4–17 years) with physician-diagnosed asthma and positive skin-test results to an indoor allergen and living in urban New Orleans, Louisiana. Most of the children were taking daily asthma medications, more than half had had an emergency department visit, almost 75% had …