Breaking the Skin Color Barriers for Asthma Medications — It’s Not Black, Brown, or White

Although asthma disproportionately affects Black and Latinx patients, they are underrepresented in studies of therapy, which makes it difficult to determine whether the results may be applied to them. Since race is not a biologic but a social construct, health disparities among persons with asthma are not a result of the color of the patient’s skin but rather the result of the structural and systemic racist practices that render these patients at risk for poor outcomes and that must be addressed when studying these populations. In this issue of the Journal, Israel and colleagues1 report the results of the Person . . .