High self-reported asthma rates in Chinatown, N.Y.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 - 11:18 in Health & Medicine

Research conducted seven years after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York City (NYC) found that children attending the socioeconomically and ethnically homogeneous elementary school closest to Ground Zero have high rates of self-reported asthma and airway obstruction.

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