Re: Asthma - 12 lives a day? Where's the outrage?

[Guest guest]

With reference to asthma ( which my son has!), there was a recent

study (in Canada, I think) that showed by delaying the first DtaP to

4 mo ( normal is at 2 mo), the asthma rates were reduced by 50%.

That is pretty striking!

Good luck!

C.

Houston

> > Asthma and it's subsequent complications claims 12 lives per day

in

> > America.

>

> Does anybody have more detailed data on this - like a breakdown

by

> state and month? I'm sure the 12 is an average over the entire

year,

> and asthma-related problems are known to be linked to air quality

> (both), and pollen I think (both), and possibly temperature (month

> and possibly location too). Poverty (location-related, but in a

very

> complicated way) also enters into it as that's a weak proxy for

> 'healthcare' (meaning rescue inhalers and inhalers that aren't

> expired when they need to be used).

>

> Also, I'd love to know where to get data to make a chart of

asthma

> against vax rates against time, possibly in different countries.

> This would be a very tough analysis to do right (just like

autism/vax

> analysis is tough to do right), but the general trends should be

> there and would be striking, assuming there are no obvious holes

the

> NDers can poke.. If certain vaxes are though to be more involved

> (HepB?) were introduced first in some states, and there was enough

of

> a lag until other states adopted - that might show up in the data

> too. " Racial " incidence data might show something interesting, but

I

> think not - I think that would just pattern with (and be explained

> by) a poverty relation. Gender rate data would be interesting too -

> is there a boy-skewing effect for asthma like there is for autism?

>

> Other than vaxes, were there any other things going into the

> environment that would contribute to an increase? This would be

very

> hard to do unless you wanted to do a Palmer-type analysis by

distance

> from particulate-point-sources or something like that (does Palmer

> read ABMD?).

>

> Data from other countries, especially Denmark where I've head

they

> only have *3* vaccines used over a 3-5 year period (and STILL have

> adverse events!) would be quite interesting, but too hard to

compare

> given the differences in pollution, lifestyle, poverty, healthcare,

etc.

>

> Jim

>