Habitual snoring linked to increased asthma symptom burden, Study says
According to recent research, it has been found out that snoring is common among inner-city school-age children with asthma, and habitual snoring is associated with increased asthma symptom burden and health care utilization.
The study is published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
Inner-city children are disproportionately affected by asthma and sleep-disordered breathing (SDB). However, little is known about the association of SDB symptoms with asthma morbidity in this vulnerable population.
Therefore, Sigfus Gunnlaugsson and colleagues from the Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass carried out the present study with the objective to assess the relationship between snoring frequency and asthma morbidity.
This study was part of the School Inner-City Asthma Study, a longitudinal prospective cohort study of children with persistent asthma who attended schools in the Northeast United States. Participants had baseline assessments of asthma symptoms, snoring, and allergy status.
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