Feeling unsafe an asthma trigger in teens

May 08 (Reuters Health) - A survey of a large, nationally representative sample of U.S. high school students shows that there are statistically significant associations between violent victimization and asthma episodes.

Of a total of 1,943 asthmatic students attending public or private schools, those who had been victimized in the past year were 45 percent more likely than those who had not been victimized to report an asthma episode in this period, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, found. report in the May issue of the American Journal of Public Health......Click HERE to read the whole article.