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The National Center of Contemporary and Alternative Medicine, a center of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a $2.5 million grant for research of asthma disparities among Latino children to the College of Nursing and Health Innovation at Arizona State University in Phoenix. The grant is the largest in the history of the college.

The NIH R01 grant is titled “Asthma Disparities in Latino Children: Acculturation, Illness Representation & Contemporary Alternative Medicine.”

Principal Investigator Kimberly Sidora-Arcoleo, MPH, PhD, is an assistant professor in the college’s Center for Children, Teens & Families.

Racial and ethnic disparities in asthma health outcomes have been increasing in the United States, and the aim of the study is to determine the causes. Individuals of Mexican and Puerto Rican origin constitute 73% of the Latino population in the U.S., according to a news release.

The factors leading to asthma health disparities between Mexican and Puerto Rican children are complex, yet little research has been conducted that integrates, in one explanatory model, the multitude of factors that can lead to these disparities among Latino children.

Recruiting and enrollment of the 300 mother/child dyads is scheduled to start in April 2010. Study results will be reported in late 2013.