Asthma’s impact on the nation

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Environmental Health (U.S.)
• Description:
  Asthma is common.
  
  • 1 in 11 children have asthma.
  
  • 1 in 12 adults have asthma.
  
  • Black children are 2 times more likely to have asthma than white children.
  
  Asthma is deadly.
  
  • 1 in 5 children with asthma went to an emergency department for asthma-related care in 2009.
  
  • In 2009, there were:
  
  479,000 asthma-related hospitalizations.
  
  1.9 million asthma-related emergency department visits.
  
  8.9 million asthma-related doctor visits.
  
  9 people die from asthma every day.
  
  • Black Americans are 2 to 3 times more likely to die from asthma than any other racial or ethnic group.
  
  Asthma is disruptive.
  
  • Nearly 1 in 2 children with asthma report missing at least 1 day of school each year because of asthma.
  
  • 3 in 5 people with asthma limit their physical activity.
  
  • Nearly 1 in 3 adults with asthma report missing at least one day of work each year because of asthma.
  
  Asthma is expensive.
  
  • Asthma costs our Nation $56 billion per year.
  
  • 1 in 4 black adults can't afford their asthma medicines.
  
  • 1 in 5 Hispanic adults can't afford their asthma medicines.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Asthma/economics Asthma/prevention & Control Environmental Exposure/prevention & Control
• Document Type:
  Poster
• Genre:
  Infographic
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  1 infographic
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:ee0581d5104dbe8cbd4893c391c5fff9a511c0394ddb8549ff335c563bad5190
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/25567/cdc_25567_DS1.pdf
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