I’m pissed, pissed, at finding out this information. I even went to the journal site and read the article to make sure there wasn’t a spin. 47% of black kids and 67% of Puerto Rican children?! Those numbers are astronomical and point to a largely increased amount of morbidity (and mortality in some cases) in regards to asthma related complications in patients. Like all this proves is that white researchers only research white people despite how much it can help them and everyone else to diversify their subject pools. This is the community I am joining. The medical community has long been using racist sexist classist data to treat our patients and slowly but surely it is coming to light that we have been hurting our patients because of it. More research needs to be done immediately to figure out if there are better drugs (besides short acting beta 2 agonists) that can help minorities with asthma.
Asthma Inhalers Fail Minority Children Due to a Lack of Diversity in Research
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