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Low Birthweights and Asthma Among Urban Children

LOW BIRTHWEIGHT AND ASTHMAS AMONG YOUNG URBAN CHILDREN

***** was the purpose and objectives of this epidemiologic research?

***** purpose ***** this study was to support the observation that a relationship existed between asthma ***** low birthweights. This study aimed ***** identify ***** extent of influence ***** low birthweight on developing asthma among children born in urban cities. This ***** also aimed to observe the weight of o*****r fac*****rs that have been associated to the development of both conditions. One ***** *****se was the mother's socioeconomic factors such as the ***** income, level of education, and housing. Another ***** the mother's demographic factors such as race, age and martial status. Maternal medical risk factors included the presence of diabetes, *****thma, hypertension, or other prenatal mental illness. Prenatal behavior of the mother was also considered. These factors were also related to the development of asthma, low *****, and both *****.

What was the study design? Identify the ********** ***** design and discuss how the design matched or differed from ***** description of that type ***** research by Gordis (2004)?

The prospective cohort or longitudinal study design ***** used in this specific *****. In ***** kind of *****, the study is conducted over time and is used to describe ***** natural development ***** a health outcome to a group of subjects. The group ***** be studied is selected at random and they are observed over time. The subjects ***** further slimmed down by using exclusion and inclusion criteria. In the ********** of the study, the outcome has not been identified in any of the subjects. However, several factors suspected to contribute to the development ***** a certa***** d*****ease are identified in each of ***** subject. Through time, the subjects ***** observed whether they will develop th***** disease or not. ***** absence or presence of these variables are then associated to the observed health outcome. Unlike an experi***** study, no *****tervention is done on any of the *****. The subjects ***** merely observed. A prospective ***** or l*****gitudinal study ***** used to estimate incidence rates, identify risk factors or collect information to describe the ***** history ***** prog*****sis of ***** disease (Peat, 2001).

***** the study, the subjects were new*****s born in 1998-2000. At this *****, the *****vestigators did not know if the subjects had asthma. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were used in this study to further select the *****. Quantitative and qualitative variables were ********** at the start of the study. These ***** were the newborn's *****s, ***** mother's socioeconomic, demographic, maternal, prenatal ***** behavioral factors. The investigators did not introduce any intervention that could possibly influence the outcome. Each subject was followed-up for the next three years. Data was *****ed through interviews and using pre-existing documents such as medical records and g*****nment census.

How w***** ***** sample selection done and what was the final sample size on which the data was analyzed? Was there a control *****?

***** ***** limited its ***** ***** to