Posted by Tim Darragh at 10:45:19 AM on May 16, 2012
Breathe in, breathe out. It's so basic, you do it in your sleep.
But for more than a million Pennsylvanians, breathing is not always such a simple matter.
That's one of the findings in a new report, Asthma's Impact On The Nation, released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The report shockingly says the proportion of persons with asthma in the United States increased by nearly 15 percent between 2001-2010.
Looking at state-by-state results, Pennsylvania pretty much was an image of the United States as a whole. Adult prevalence was 13.3 percent for the country and the state, while the rate for children here (9.3 percent) surpassed the national rate of 8.5 percent, the state profile shows.
CDC says the report is the first state-by-state data gathered using the Asthma Call-back Survey, an in-depth survey conducted among people with asthma identified by the CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.
?The information in this release is a stark reminder that asthma continues to be major public health concern with a large financial impact on families, the nation, and our health care system,? said Christopher J. Portier, director of CDC?s National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.? ?A key component for adults and children is to create and follow an asthma action plan. Significantly, this analysis reveals that more than half of all children and more than two-thirds of all adults with asthma do not have an individualized action plan. CDC encourages those with asthma to work with their doctors to take control of this disease.??
In total, an estimated 29.1 million adults have been diagnosed with asthma in their lifetimes, and 18.7 million still had asthma. Among kids, an estimated 10.1 million had been diagnosed with asthma in their lifetimes, and 7.0 million still had it, according to 2010 figures. In Pennsylvania, the estimates are just under 900,000 adults and about 268,000 children.
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