These articles are based entirely or in-part on the CHIRAH data. Most can be found on-line at the relevant journals' Web sites, although access may be restricted by subscription. Most should also be available through any university medical library.
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Coping with asthma in immigrant Hispanic families: a focus group study by Mosnaim G., et al. in Annals of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology. 97(4):477-83, 2006 Oct.
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Assessing the Perceived Stress Scale for African American adults with asthma and low literacy by Sharp LK, et al. in Journal of Asthma. 44(4):311-6, 2007 May.
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Asthma burden in a Chicago city-wide diverse sample of elementary school children by Shalowitz M, et al. in Ambulatory Pediatrics 2007; Jul-Aug;7(4):271-7.
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A 6-item brief measure for assessing perceived control of asthma in culturally diverse patients by Chang C, et al. in Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology 2007; Aug;99 (2):130-5.
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Parental Language and Asthma among Urban Hispanic Children by Mosnaim GS, et al. in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2007;120(5):1160-65.
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Geographic variability in childhood asthma prevalence by Gupta RS, et al. in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2008;121(3):639-645.
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A community-based study of tobacco smoke exposure among inner-city children with asthma in Chicago by Kumar R, et al. in Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology. 122(4):754-759.e1, 2008 Oct.
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An African-specific functional polymorphism in KCNMB1 shows sex-specific association with asthma severity by Seibold MA, et al. in Human Molecular Genetics, 2008, Vol. 17, No. 17.
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Improving asthma self-efficacy: developing and testing a pilot community-based asthma intervention for African American adults by Martin MA, et al. in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 2009 Jan;123(1):153-159.e3.
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Ethnic Disparities in Asthma Morbidity in Chicago by Evans AT, et al. in Journal of Asthma (in press).
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The burden of asthma in the Chicago community fifteen years after the availability of national asthma guidelines: the design and initial results from the CHIRAH study by Weiss KB, et al. in Contemporary Clinical Trials (in press).
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The protective effect of community factors on childhood asthma by Gupta RS, et al. in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (in press).
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