Asthma soars in U.S.
If you’re still wondering why so many health care organizations focus their disease management efforts on asthma, consider these facts from an April 1998 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta:
• Asthma prevalence has increased by 75% since 1979.
• Asthma prevalence in children under age 5 has increased by 160% since 1979.
• The CDC predicts the asthma prevalence rate will continue to increase by 5% a year.
• The asthma death rate among blacks climbed by 130% between 1979 and 1995.
• The asthma death rate in whites climbed 86% between 1979 and 1995.
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