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Asthma prevalence and statistics

Posted Jan 02 2011 12:00am
While preparing for a lecture on asthma to primary care physicians, I had to update my slides.  There are many different statistics on all sorts of facets of asthma.  Here are links to some I found interesting: 
1. Asthma Prevalence, Health Care Use and Mortality: United States, 2003-05 by Akinbami .  Go down to the charts at the bottom.  Children have far more at risk and likelihood of diagnosis 8.9% versus adults 7.2%.
2. AAAAI list of statistics .  Nice assortment.
3. Prevalence of asthma by state .  SC was ranked 48th for all ages in 2004 at 6.6%.  Seems very low to me.  Range 4.2%-10.6%4. CDC surveillance data reported in 2006 for adults >18 years old having been told they have asthma = 7.7%. Moving up to table 54, Greenville County has an obesity rate of 24.0%, which is well below most of the state.  So, on this note, I'll end with my refrain of (low salt, low fat, vegetable) diet and (aerobic) exercise.
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