Asthma medication use varies among Latino youth

- A new U.S. study of groups of Latino youth with asthma sheds light on potential health disparities. Puerto Rican children were less likely than Mexican kids to use asthma inhalers regularly, researchers found.

"Taking controller medications as prescribed reduces inflammation in the lungs and the potential for what we call airway remodeling which leads to poorer health outcomes," said coauthor Kimberly Arcoleo of the University of Rochester School of Nursing. It's also possible that where kids received care accounted for some of the variation in medication use, said Dr. Avni Joshi, a pediatric allergy and asthma specialist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota who wasn't involved in the study.

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