Asthma diagnosis and treatment
Immigration to the United States and acculturation as risk factors for asthma and allergy

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      Many of the risk factors for asthma that are found in poorer households in general might actually be less common among poorer, less acculturated Hispanic households.42 Increased acculturation has been linked to higher prevalence of asthma risk factors, including shorter duration of breast-feeding,43 smoking,44 prematurity,45,46 and poor diet,47 and has been shown to be a risk factor for asthma among Mexican Hispanics.48,49 Although we adjusted for the subject child's birth outside the United States, our analyses did not adjust for the immigration status of the child's parent, and thus acculturation is a potential explanation for the inverse relationship between poverty and asthma we found among Hispanics, although differences in diagnosis and gene-environment interactions might also play a role.

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