- Researchers found a decrease of 1% in the prevalence of pediatric asthma from 2011-2012 to 2018-2019.
- The prevalence of asthma increased among adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17 in states where lawmakers have legalized the recreational use of cannabis.
- The prevalence of asthma also increased among children from non-Hispanic minority groups in these states.
- The ecological study used data from the 2011-2019 National Survey on Children’s Health.
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A study by researchers at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and The City University of New York noted an increase in the prevalence of asthma among older children in states where lawmakers have made the recreational use of cannabis legal.
This study, according to its authors, is the first to look at the changes in laws regarding cannabis at the state level and the incidence of asthma in children.
The researchers’ findings were published in the journal Preventive Medicine.
“No one has really written anything or done any studies on this,” Renee Goodwin, an adjunct associate professor in the department of epidemiology at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, a professor at The City University of New York, and a co-author of this study, told Medical News Today.
For their study, the researchers used data from the National Survey on Children’s Health (NSCH), a representative sample of the population of minor children in the United States.
The researchers used NSCH data to…
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