ArticleJournal of immigrant health2005
Asthma prevalence and severity in Arab American communities in the Detroit area, Michigan.
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- Pooled it
- The health of Arab-Americans living in the United States: a systematic review of the literature.BMC public health · 2009Pooled it
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- The Health of Arab Americans in the United States: An Updated Comprehensive Literature Review.Frontiers in public health · 2018Article
- Disparities in Chronic Disease Prevalence Among Non-Hispanic Whites: Heterogeneity Among Foreign-Born Arab and European Americans.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2016Article
- Bronchial asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: research activity in Arab countries.Multidisciplinary respiratory medicine · 2014Article
- Self-reported asthma in Chaldeans, Arabs, and African Americans: factors associated with asthma.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2011Article
- Health assessment of the Arab American community in southwest Brooklyn.Journal of community health · 2010Article
- Validation of an Arab name algorithm in the determination of Arab ancestry for use in health research.Ethnicity & health · 2010Article
- Asthma, environmental risk factors, and hypertension among Arab Americans in metro Detroit.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2010Article
- Strategies for recruiting Middle Eastern-American young adults for physical activity research: a case of snowballs and Salaam.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2009Article
- Comparison of personal characteristics, tobacco use, and health states in Chaldean, Arab American, and non-Middle Eastern White adults.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2009Article
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Abstract
Immigrant populations provide a unique intersection of cultural and environmental risk factors implicated in asthma etiology. This study focuses on asthma prevalence and severity in 600 Arab American households in metro Detroit, the largest immigrant reception zone for Arab Americans in North America. The survey method introduced a number of novel features: (a) a ranking scheme for the key environmental risk factors for asthma was used to derive an aggregated environmental risk index (ERI) for each household, and (b) an aggregate measure of asthma severity based on symptom frequency and intensity. Environmental risk factors and surrogates for socioeconomic status (SES) were found to be stronger predictors of asthma prevalence than asthma severity, while demographic variables such as English fluency and birth in the United States were better predictors of asthma severity than asthma prevalence. These results suggest that SES variables may be more reflective of environmental exposures in communities involved in this study, while English fluency and birth in the United States may be linked to health care access and utilization behavior that can influence the asthma management. We also found a significant relationship between asthma prevalence and degree of acculturation. Asthma prevalence was highest among moderately acculturated immigrants compared with new immigrants and those who were well acculturated, suggesting that among Arab Americans in the Detroit area, risk factors associated with new immigrant status are replaced by "western" risk factors as the population becomes more acculturated.
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