The new nasal swab test analyzes the activity of eight ... department and urgent care visit rates of 23.5% for asthma, while Black children have rates of 26.6% — both significantly higher ...

Worldwide, asthma is the most common chronic respiratory illness that affects children, particularly Puerto Rican and Black youths, who experience higher rates of asthma and asthma-related deaths ...

A simple, noninvasive nasal swab identified a predominance of T2-low ... such as Puerto Rican and Black youths,” said Celedon. “We aimed to identify asthma endotypes in school-aged youth ...

The study participants were predominantly Puerto Rican or non-Hispanic Black. The analysis showed that the nasal swabs could accurately diagnose several asthma subtypes. It also found that “T2 ...

The researchers tested the nasal swab among 459 Puerto Rican and non-Hispanic Black children and teens, finding that T-2 low asthma was more common than T2-high asthma. Before the test can be used ...

A recent study published in the journal JAMA reveals that researchers have developed a nasal swab test for children ... and it disproportionately affects Black and Puerto Rican children, so ...

A study published in the journal of the American Society for Microbiology, with more than 30,000 experts, showed that tests using saliva are faster than tests that use nasal swabs. The research ...