Social Determinants Of Health

Approximately 25 million people in the United States — or 7% of the population — has asthma, the Allergy & Asthma Network reports. But that prevalence is not evenly distributed, with wide variation from state to state and even city to city.

WASHINGTON — Children reporting white race, higher household income and allergic rhinitis were more likely to outgrow food allergy, according to a poster presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting.

When talking to ICU patients, clinicians often fail to ask about social determinants of health, and this may be due to a lack of a standard for this type of data collection, according to results published in CHEST Critical Care.

Disparities in lupus ICU admission and renal outcomes between Black and white children are greater in children’s hospitals serving more Black patients, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.

WASHINGTON — Patients from underrepresented groups experienced improved control of their hereditary angioedema after diagnosis, according to a presentation at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual meeting.

After the passage of the Affordable Care Act, wait times for hand surgery increased among patients with rheumatoid arthritis in rural areas compared with urban patients for whom surgical wait times declined, according to a recent study.

Black children had higher odds for severe food allergy reactions and E usage as well as lower total lifetime epinephrine use than white children, according to a study in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

World Cancer Day will be observed Feb. 4.

Both social risk and social need increased the odds of ED use, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

A three-question screening tool was effective at identifying patients with precarious employment, a recent study found.