The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Volume 120, Issue 5 , Pages 1160-1165 , November 2007

Parental language and asthma among urban Hispanic children

  • Giselle S. Mosnaim, MD, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Rush Medical College, Chicago, Ill
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Giselle Mosnaim, MD, MS, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Rush Medical College, 1725 West Harrison, Suite 117, Chicago, IL 60612.
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  • Laura S. Sadowski, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Collaborative Research Unit, Department of Medicine, Cook County Bureau of Health Services and Rush Medical College, Chicago, Ill
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  • Ramon A. Durazo-Arvizu, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, Chicago, Ill
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  • Lisa K. Sharp, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Section of Health Promotion Research, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Ill
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  • Laura M. Curtis, MS

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Healthcare Studies, Northwestern University, Chicago, Ill
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  • Madeleine U. Shalowitz, MD, MBA

      Affiliations

    • Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Ill
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  • John J. Shannon, MD

      Affiliations

    • Divisions of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Stroger Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, Ill
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  • Kevin B. Weiss, MD

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Healthcare Studies, Northwestern University, Chicago, Ill

Received 2 October 2006 ,Revised 22 August 2007 ,Accepted 22 August 2007.

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 Supported by a grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (1-U01 HL 72496-1) sponsoring the Chicago Initiative to Raise Asthma Health Equity.

 Disclosure of potential conflict of interest: G. S. Mosnaim has consulting arrangements with GlaxoSmithKline, owns stock in Electrocore, and is on the speakers' bureau for the Respiratory and Allergic Disease Foundation, Sanofi-Aventis, Schering-Plough, Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, and AstraZeneca. R. A. Durazo-Arvizu and J. J. Shannon have received grant support from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. L. M. Curtis has received grant support from the National Institutes of Health. The rest of the authors have declared that they have no conflict of interest.

PII: S0091-6749(07)01640-5

doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2007.08.040

The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Volume 120, Issue 5 , Pages 1160-1165 , November 2007

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