CDC STACKS serves as an archival repository of CDC-published products including scientific findings, journal articles, guidelines, recommendations, or other public health information authored or co-authored by CDC or funded partners.
As a repository, CDC STACKS retains documents in their original published format to ensure public access to scientific information.
i
Asthma in children : working together to get it under control
-
February 6, 2018
-
Series: CDC Vital signs ; Feb. 2018
[PDF-423.67 KB]
Details:
-
Corporate Authors:
-
Description:Asthma is a serious disease causing wheezing, difficulty breathing, and coughing. Over a lifetime, it can cause permanent lung damage. About 16% of black children and 7% of white children have asthma. While we don’t know what causes asthma, we do know how to prevent asthma attacks or at least make them less severe. Today, children with asthma and their caregivers report fewer attacks, missed school days, and hospital visits. More children with asthma are learning to control their asthma using an asthma action plan.* Still, more than half of children with asthma had one or more attacks in 2016. Every year, 1 in 6 children with asthma visits the Emergency Department with about 1 in 20 children with asthma hospitalized for asthma.
www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/childhood-asthma
www.cdc.gov/mmwr
CS286979A
2018-02-vitalsigns.pdf
-
Subjects:
-
Series:
-
Document Type:
-
Pages in Document:4 unnumbered pages
-
Collection(s):
-
Main Document Checksum:
-
Download URL:
-
File Type:
Related Documents
-
[PDF - 232.09 KB]
