Pittsburgh: "22% of kids tested have asthma"; 60% don't have it under control

June 11, 2018, Environmental Health News: 60% of Pittsburgh kids with asthma don’t have their disease under control http://www.ehn.org/how-many-pittsburgh-kids-have-uncontrolled-asthma-2575403222.html … Savaughn isn't the only kid in Pittsburgh who regularly has trouble catching his breath. County data is lacking, so last year pediatricians set out to put a number on the region's asthma problem—and the results were striking: A study of more than 1,200 elementary school students in eight of the county's most polluted school districts found that 22 percent of kids tested have asthma. At the state level, just 10 percent of kids have asthma. The national average is 8 percent. In Clairton the asthma rate in the study was 18 percent. In some of the 14 schools included in the study, such as Fairless and Shaffer elementary schools (both of which have since been closed by the district), the rates spiked to more than 30 percent of kids examined. … Gentile's research also revealed that asthma was uncontrolled in nearly 60 percent of the children with the disease who she examined. Nationally, the rate of uncontrolled asthma in kids is 38 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. State-wide it's 27 percent.