Reuters (9/25, Rapaport) reports, “When young people with asthma have anxiety, depression or both, they’re more likely to visit the emergency” department (ED) “than if they didn’t have these mood disorders,” researchers concluded after examining “health insurance claims data from 2014 to 2015 for 65,342 children and young adults ages 6 to 21 with asthma.” The findings were published online Sept. 25 in Pediatrics.
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— “Anxiety, depression tied to more ER visits with childhood asthma, “Lisa Rapaport, Reuters, September 25, 2019