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| Completed Research Projects :: Asthma |
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| Project Title: |
Chicago Initiative to Raise Asthma Equity (CHIRAH) |
| Project PI: |
John Jay Shannon MD, Kevin Weiss MD |
| Co-investigators: |
A. Evans, L. Sadowski, R. Kee and numerous others from John Stroger Hospital & Northwestern Medical Center |
| Description: |
The Chicago Initiative to Raise Asthma Health Equity is a 5-year collaborative study to assess the relationship of stress and coping with asthma outcomes among children and adult family members with asthma. The study independent variables of stress and coping are believed to contribute to asthma disparities among African-American and low-income populations. |
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Publication refernce:
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Weiss KB, Shannon JJ, Sadowski LS, Sharp LK, Curtis L, Lyttle CS, Kumar R, Shalowitz MU, Weiselberg L, Catrambone CD, Evans AT, Kee R, Miller J, Kimmel L, Grammer LC. The burden of asthma in the Chicago community fifteen years after the availability of national asthma guidelines: the design and initial results from the CHIRAH study. Contemp Clin Trials. 2009;30:246-255.
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Shalowitz M, Sadowski LS, Kumar R, Weiss K and Shannon JJ. Asthma Burden in a Chicago City-Wide, A Diverse Sample of Elementary Schoolchildren. Ambulatory Pediatrics. 2007;7:271-277.
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Evans AT, Sadowski LS, VanderWeele TJ et al, Ethnic Disparities in Asthma Morbidity in Chicago. Journal of Asthma, 2009 June; 46(5): 448-454.
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Grammer LC, Weiss KB, Kimmel LG, Curtis LM, Catrambone CD, Lyttle CS,Sharp LK and Sadowski LS. Obesity
and Asthma Morbidity in a Community-Based Adult Cohort in a Large Urban Area: the Chicago Initiative to Raise Asthma
Health Equity (CHIRAH). Journal of Asthma, 2010;47:491-495.
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Sharp LK, Curtis LM, Mosnaim G, Shalowitz MU, Catrambone C, Sadowski LS. The influence of caregivers' psychosocial status on childhood asthma and obesity. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2009 Nov;103(5):386-94.
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| Sponsor: |
NHLBI |
| Contact Information: |
L. Sadowski |
| Project Duration: |
Start date: 09/30/2002 End date: 09/30/2009 |
| Status: |
Completed |
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