ArticleThe European respiratory journal2010
Community violence and urban childhood asthma: a multilevel analysis.
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- Exposure to violence, chronic stress, nasal DNA methylation, and atopic asthma in children.Pediatric pulmonology · 2021Pooled it
- Violence-related distress and lung function in two longitudinal studies of youth.The European respiratory journal · 2022Trial
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- Exploring the causal link between childhood maltreatment and asthma: a Mendelian randomization study.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- Exposure to Violence and Asthma Endotypes in Puerto Rican Youth.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2025Article
- Association between prenatal ambient particulate matter and childhood asthma is modified by community safety and child sex.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Socioenvironmental and mental health determinants of alcohol use among Black sexually minoritized men and transgender women: Findings from the N2 cohort study.Journal of gay & lesbian mental health · 2025Article
- Asthma: Biomedical and Psychobiological Perspectives.Biopsychosocial science and medicine · 2025Review
- Social network alcohol use is associated with individual-level alcohol use among Black sexually minoritized men and gender-expansive people: Findings from the Neighborhoods and Networks (N2) cohort study.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2025Article
- Recommendations for Clinicians to Combat Environmental Disparities in Pediatric Asthma: A Review.Chest · 2024Review
- The effects of violence and related stress on asthma.Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology · 2024Review
- The role of school safety perceptions in childhood asthma diagnosis disparities.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2024Article
- Adverse Events during Adulthood, Child Maltreatment, and Asthma among British Adults in the UK Biobank.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2023Article
- Exposure to violence and asthma in Puerto Rican youth with high Th2 immunity.Pediatric pulmonology · 2023Article
- Exploring the Link Between Neighborhood Violence and Health Among African-American and Latinx Youth Returning Home After Incarceration.Child & youth care forum · 2023Article
- Association of a Housing Mobility Program With Childhood Asthma Symptoms and Exacerbations.JAMA · 2023Article
- Neighborhood Opportunity and Mortality Among Children and Adults in Their Households.Pediatrics · 2023Article
- Environmental justice and allergic disease: A Work Group Report of the AAAAI Environmental Exposure and Respiratory Health Committee and the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2023Article
- Validation of a neighborhood sentiment and safety index derived from existing data repositories.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2023Article
- Structural Racism and the Social Determinants of Health in Asthma.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2023Article
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Abstract
We examined the association between community violence exposure and childhood asthma risk in a multilevel, multimethod, longitudinal study controlling for individual- and neighbourhood-level confounders and pathway variables. Analyses included 2,071 children aged 0-9 yrs at enrolment from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods. Multilevel logistic regression models estimated the likelihood of asthma, controlling for individual-level (child's age, sex, race/ethnicity, maternal asthma, socioeconomic status and family violence in the home) and neighbourhood-level confounders (concentrated disadvantage, collective efficacy and social disorder), and pathway variables (maternal smoking, breastfeeding). In adjusted analyses, medium (OR 1.60, 95% CI 1.17-2.19) and high levels (OR 1.56, 95% CI 1.12-2.18) of community violence were associated with increased asthma risk, relative to low levels. The increased asthma risk remained for African Americans when models included community violence and all other individual-level covariates, but attenuated to borderline nonsignificance when further adjusting for collective efficacy. Community violence is associated with asthma risk when controlling for individual- and neighborhood-level confounders. Neither community violence, nor the other individual-level factors, fully accounted for the excess asthma burden among African Americans. These data suggest that public health interventions outside the biomedical model may be needed to reduce asthma in disadvantaged populations.
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