Background:South Asian people with asthma have a higher risk of asthma related hospital admission compared with white Europeans. There is no clear evidence of differences in severity or prevalence of asthma, prescribed drugs, asthma education or in the severity of the acute episodes amongst admitted patients in the two ethnic groups. Excess risk is only likely to be in part due to socio-economic status. Difficulties in developing an effective patient-doctor relationship has been suggested as one of the many possible explanatory factors underlying these differences in hospitalisation rates.
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