INADEQUATE ASTHMA CONTROL COULD PUT KIDS AT RISK FOR SCHOOL DIFFICULTIES
City-dwelling children with asthma are much more likely than their non-asthmatic peers to be enrolled in special education services at school, according to a study of randomly selected public elementary schools in New York.
The study found 34 percent of children in special education classes had an asthma diagnosis, compared with 19 percent of children in the general population. After controlling for sociodemographic factors, children with asthma were 60 percent more likely to be enrolled in special education. And those asthmatic children in special education classes were significantly more likely to be low-income and to have been hospitalized in the previous year and less likely to use peak flow meters than asthmatic children in the general population.
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