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"A Potential New Target For Treating Asthma" [Read this article]
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"Inappropriate Immune Responses" [Read this article]
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"Treating Asthma Illustration" [Read this article]

In the news

09-20-2007Fda Proposing Phase Out Of Cfcs In Metered-dose Inhalers For Epinephrine09-12-2007National Asthma Guidelines Updated04-17-2007Stronger Warning Proposed For Xolair03-01-2007Treating Asthma In Kids12-15-2005Nearly One Quarter Of Children At Risk To Second-hand Smoke Illness10-11-2005New Study On Childhood Asthma Shows Home-based Interventions Are Cost-effective09-08-2004Customized Program Reduces Asthma Symptoms In Inner-city Children

Asthma: A chronic disease that causes your airways, the tubes that carry air to and from your lungs, to narrow so that less air flows through. Symptoms include wheezing (a whistling sound when you breathe), coughing, chest tightness and trouble breathing.

NIH News in Health
March 2007

Over 9 million U.S. children under 18 years of age (13%) have ever been diagnosed with asthma, and 6.5 million children (9%) still have asthma.
Boys were more likely to have ever been diagnosed with asthma or to still have asthma than girls.
Non-Hispanic black children were more likely to have ever been diagnosed with asthma or to still have asthma than Hispanic children or non-Hispanic white children.
Children in poor families were more likely to have ever been diagnosed with asthma or to still have asthma than children in families that were not poor.
Children in fair or poor health were four times as likely to have ever been diagnosed with asthma and more than five times as likely to still have asthma as children in excellent or very good health.

DATA SOURCE: Summary Health Statistics for U.S. Children: National Health Interview Survey, 2005


Last modified: May 2008
Allergy and asthma statistics as reported by NHIS