Lung function, asthma symptoms, and quality of life for children in public housing in Boston: a case-series analysis

Table 7 Comparison of children in HPHI intervention study with children in other studies

	HPHI	NCICAS [20]	Other low-income asthmatic populations	Population-based studies
Family history of asthma	70%	57%	-	N/A
% overweight	56%	19%	-	15% [39]
% of families with at least one smoker	39%	59%	46% [35]	41% [36]
% with cockroach allergy	59%	36%	52–78% [1]	22% [36]
% with European dust mite allergy	59%	31%	-	27% [36]
% with Alternaria allergy	7%	38%	-	16% [36]
% not let children play outside due to violence in neighborhood	41%	34% [25]	-	-
% of persistent asthmatics on long-term control medication	36%	24% ¹	27% [37]	26% [38] ²

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