MedTrace Logo

Urban Environmental Factors and Childhood Asthma

NCT00114881 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 560

Last updated 2025-07-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Minority children who grow up in poor urban neighborhoods have the highest rates of asthma, and also experience greater morbidity from acute exacerbations of this disease. The aim of this study is to further identify environmental factors unique to the inner city that affect immune development and the expression of wheezing, atopy and asthma for purposes of identifying new strategies for asthma prevention.

Conditions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Inner-City Asthma Consortium

    collaborator NETWORK

  • Rho Federal Systems Division, Inc.

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

    lead NIH

Principal Investigators

  • James E. Gern, MD · University of Wisconsin, Madison

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-02-02
Primary Completion
2024-08-31
Completion
2024-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

More Related Trials

Entities

Diseases

Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

View NCT00114881 on ClinicalTrials.gov