Bardach NS, Neel C, Kleinman LC, et al. - Researchers examined the association of anxiety and depression with increased asthma-related emergency department (ED) use among pediatric patients with asthma. From the Massachusetts All-Payer Claims Database for 2014 to 2015, they identified 65,342 patients with asthma. Among these, 24.7% were diagnosed with anxiety, depression, or both (11.2% anxiety only, 5.8% depression only, and 7.7% both). Findings revealed higher rates of asthma-related ED use among children with asthma and anxiety or depression alone, or comorbid anxiety and depression, vs those without either diagnosis. Patients with anxiety had a rate of 18.9 ED visits per 100 child-years, patients with depression had a rate of 21.7, and patients with both depression and anxiety had a rate of 27.6, after controlling for age, gender, insurance type, and other chronic illness.