Pulmonary

A four-year, NIH-funded study of the role of access to care, allergy, and psychosocial and environmental factors in asthma, now complete, demonstrated the important role of allergy and exposure to cockroaches in increasing asthma symptoms. Mount Sinai is one of seven centers that has received five-year funding from NIH to develop an intervention for reducing asthma morbidity through environmental factors and physician education.

AIDS research includes early detection of heart and lung complications of HIV infection, the effect of other viral infections on the course of HIV, and the effects of viruses and injury on lung growth. It has been shown that HIV can have a significant effect on reducing cardiac function as the child ages.

The Sleep Disorders Laboratory opened a new facility with two beds and state-of-the-art equipment to evaluate apnea and other sleep disturbances. Researchers have developed methods to predict significant apnea from audiotapes of children who snore.

Other research includes morphometric studies and evaluation of an animal model of congenital diaphragmatic hernia, characteristics of asthma in Chinese populations in New York City, identification and treatment of narcotic dependency in patients in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, and evaluation of the postoperative care of pediatric liver transplant patients.

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