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PEDIATRICS Vol. 105 No. 5 May 2000, pp. 1171-1172

Socioeconomic Variation in Asthma Hospitalization: Excess Utilization or Greater Need?

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To the Editor.

I read with interest the article entitled "Socioeconomic Variation in Asthma Hospitalization" in the June 1999 issue of Pediatrics electronics pages (URL: http://www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/103/6/e75).

It has occurred to me that the patients who fare best with severe asthma in my practice are those with college-educated parents with a science background, a strong sense of cause-and-effect, and compulsive tendencies. In other words, people much . . . [Full Text of this Article]