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Asthma in the US : growing every year.
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- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- National Center for Environmental Health (U.S.). Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects, author.
- Series:
- CDC vital signs
- CDC Vitalsigns
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asthma--United States--Statistics.
- Asthma.
- Asthma--epidemiology.
- Asthma--therapy.
- Environmental Exposure--prevention & control.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Asthma--epidemiology.
- Asthma--therapy.
- Asthma.
- Environmental Exposure--prevention & control.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Statistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (4 pages) : color illustrations, map
- Place of Publication:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2012.
- Summary:
- Asthma is a lifelong disease that causes wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness, and coughing. It can limit a person's quality of life. While we don't know why asthma rates are rising, we do know that most people with asthma can control their symptoms and prevent asthma attacks by avoiding asthma triggers and correctly using prescribed medicines, such as inhaled corticosteroids. The number of people diagnosed with asthma grew by 4.3 million from 2001 to 2009. From 2001 through 2009 asthma rates rose the most among black children, almost a 50% increase. Asthma was linked to 3,447 deaths (about 9 per day) in 2007. Asthma costs in the US grew from about $53 billion in 2002 to about $56 billion in 2007, about a 6% increase. Greater access to medical care is needed for the growing number of people with asthma."--Page 1
- Notes:
- Fact sheet released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services (OSELS) in association with: Vital signs: asthma prevalence, disease characteristics, and self-management education: United States, 2001--2009. published: MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report; v. 60, no. 17, p. 547-52.
- "C221812-B."
- "May 2011."
- "Publication date: 05/03/2011"--Page 4
- Title from title screen (viewed July 5, 2011).
- OCLC:
- 739084877
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