Poverty rates linked to asthma in ‘redlined’ areas

According to a study published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine by Tina Hartert, MD, MPH (Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine), and colleagues, children who were raised in areas negatively affected by a government housing policy from the 1930s known as ‘redlining’ are still paying a price in the form of higher risk of developing asthma.