Risk of Incident Asthma Among Young Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Children from Age 3 to 7 Years in a Northern California Healthcare System

Anna Chen Arroyo; Jimmy Ko; Malini Chandra; Polly Huang; Jeanne A Darbinian; Latha Palaniappan; Joan C Lo

doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2023.113802

Risk of Incident Asthma Among Young Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Children from Age 3 to 7 Years in a Northern California Healthcare System

J Pediatr. 2024 Feb:265:113802. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2023.113802. Epub 2023 Oct 28.

Authors

Anna Chen Arroyo¹, Jimmy Ko², Malini Chandra³, Polly Huang⁴, Jeanne A Darbinian³, Latha Palaniappan⁵, Joan C Lo⁶

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA; Stanford Center for Asian Health Research and Education, Stanford, CA.
² Permanente Medical Group, Department of Allergy, Kaiser Permanente Fremont Medical Center, Fremont, CA.
³ Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medicine Center, Oakland, CA.
⁵ Stanford Center for Asian Health Research and Education, Stanford, CA; Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Division of Epidemiology and Population Health, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA.
⁶ Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA; Department of Health Systems Science, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, Pasadena, CA. Electronic address: Joan.C.Lo@kp.org.

PMID: 37898424
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2023.113802

Abstract

Incident childhood asthma risk has not been examined among diverse Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander subgroups. In a large California healthcare system, incident asthma was higher among young Filipino/a, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, and South Asian children compared with non-Hispanic White children, whereas Chinese and Japanese children were similar.

Keywords: Asian; Asian American; Pacific Islander; asthma; child health.

MeSH terms

Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander* / statistics & numerical data
Asthma* / epidemiology
California / epidemiology
Child
Child, Preschool
Delivery of Health Care
Humans
Risk Factors
White / statistics & numerical data