African American Children Respond Differently to Asthma Medications.

[2greys]

African Americans suffer asthma more often and more severely than Caucasian patients. However, clinical trials that have shaped treatment guidelines have included few African Americans. A new report demonstrates a shortcoming of that history. Researchers at National Jewish Health and their colleagues around the nation in the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute’s AsthmaNet report that African American children respond differently than African American adults an Caucasian adults and children to step-up therapies for inadequately controlled asthma.

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[HungryHufflepuff]

This reminds me of something I read quite some time ago that lactose intolerance was pretty much dismissed as psychological because most scientists and most test patients of the era were white men of European descent, the majority of whom are not lactose intolerant.

[2greys in reply to HungryHufflepuff]

It is also important to realise that many people can have recessive genes of African descent even though they are Caucasian Europeans, which can have the same effect on them, so this research could also be very relevant to quite a few.

[mellyme]

Really good stuff.We have so much to learn.