Ellen Davis, Elizabeth Townsend, Aero Cavalier, Yi-Fan Chen, Dameka Edwards-Hart, Spyros Kitsiou, Wiktoria Kowalczyk, Iliana Mansur, Ebere Okpara, Karen Powell, Valerie G Press, Toni Ramirez, Deborah Salvo, Lisa K Sharp, Brittani Wright, Sharmilee Maria Nyenhuis
BACKGROUND: Black women experience a higher prevalence of poor asthma outcomes and physical inactivity than their White counterparts. Black women comprise a particularly vulnerable group of patients with asthma, with some of the highest rates of asthma in adults, high health care use (emergency department visits and hospitalizations), and the highest crude asthma mortality rate of all race or ethnicity groups. Despite recommendations to engage in regular physical activity, fewer than 15% of Black women meet the 2008 National Physical Activity Guidelines, the lowest of all racial subgroups of adults...
February 7, 2024: JMIR Research Protocols