PHOENIX — A new strategy for administering inhaled corticosteroids improved asthma control among Black and Hispanic patients, according to a study presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting.
Black and Hispanic patients experience more than twice as many ED visits as well as deaths due to asthma as white patients, and efforts to reduce these rates have been expensive, difficult and mostly unsuccessful, the researchers said.
“It’s a health disparity. It’s a minority health issue. These are populations where no intervention is big