Among their findings, Burchard and colleagues have shown that nearly half of all black children and two-thirds of all Puerto Rican children with moderate to severe asthma don’t respond to albuterol, the most commonly prescribed asthma medication.26 They also found that among Latinos, having a higher percentage of African ancestry was associated with higher odds of asthma and poorer lung function, while Native American ancestry appeared protective against asthma.27
