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Statistics

Statistics related to asthma and allergies:

According to the latest information available from the American Lung Association, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID):

Asthma:

  • Approximately 22.2 million people in the US have been diagnosed with asthma, with at least 6.5 million of them children under the age of 18.
  • Asthma is the leading, serious, chronic illness among children in the US.
  • Asthma accounts for 14 million absences from school each year.
  • Asthma is the third-ranking cause of childhood hospitalizations under the age of 15.

Allergy:

  • Allergies affect more than 50 million people in the US.
  • Pollen allergy (hay fever or allergic rhinitis) affects nearly 8.6 percent of adults in the US (18.7 million people), not including those with asthma.
  • Allergies are the sixth leading cause of chronic disease in the US.
  • Urticaria (hives; raised areas of reddened skin that become itchy) and angioedema (swelling of throat tissues) together affect approximately 10 percent to 20 percent of the US population at some time in their lives.
  • Chronic sinusitis, most often caused by allergies, affects nearly 29.5 million people in the US.
 

The following are the latest statistics available from the National Center for Health Statistics, the American Liver Foundation, and the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS):

  • Over 26,000 people in the US die each year from chronic liver disease and cirrhosis.
  • Cirrhosis and other chronic liver diseases are the eighth leading disease-related cause of death in the US.
  • Seventy-five to 80 percent of cases of cirrhosis could be prevented by eliminating alcohol abuse.
  • Approximately 2.7 million people in the US are chronically infected with the hepatitis C virus.
  • Between 8,000 and 10,000 people die of hepatitis C annually in the US.

  • Hepatitis B kills 5,000 people in the US annually.
  • About 78,000 new infections of hepatitis B occur each year.