Respiratory Infections May Drive Puerto Rico’s High Asthma Burden

Wednesday, May 6, 2020 - 09:31 in Health & Medicine

Early-life respiratory viruses may play an outsize role in Puerto Rico’s sky-high rates of childhood asthma, according to a collaborative study led by researchers from UC San Francisco and the City University of New York (CUNY). Puerto Ricans have the highest asthma rates in the world, with the disease affecting roughly 14.2 percent of Puerto […]

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