A biologic asthma therapy called mepolizumab can reduce asthma exacerbations (also called asthma attacks) among children in low-income Hispanic and Black communities, according to a recent study from the Inner-City Asthma Consortium (ICAC).
“It’s essential to focus on these children because they are more likely to have the disease, more likely to end up in the emergency room, and more likely to die because of asthma — and they are often underrepresented in clinical trials,” says Matthew Altman, MD, MPhil, the senior author of the study who conducts asthma research at Benaroya Research Institute and treats asthma patients at UW Medicine.
