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Asthma – General Diagnosis, Treatment Costs & Occupational Stats

May 14, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

What Is The General Diagnosis for Asthma?      

In 2016, 8.3% of children in the United States had asthma (American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology). Boys were slightly more likely to have asthma than girls at a rate of 9.2% and 7.4%, respectively (American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology).Asthma prevalence among children increased from 8.7% in 2001 to 9.4% in 2010, and then decreased to 8.3% in 2016(American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology).Although not all changes were statistically significant, a similar pattern was observed among sub demographic groups studied, with the exception of Mexican/Mexican-American children, among whom asthma prevalence increased from 5.1% in 2001 to 6.5% in 2016(American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology).
         

What Are The Treatment Costs For Asthma?

In 2013, children with asthma between the ages of 5 and 17 years-old missed 13.8 million days of school(American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology). That is an average of 2.6 days per child(American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology). In 2012, the median annual medical cost of asthma was $983 in the United States(American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology). This ranged from an average low of $833 in Arizona to an average high of $1,121 in Michigan(American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology).

Health Care Visits Different Depending On Age

Children who were 4 years-old or younger were less likely to have asthma, but the children in this age range with asthma were more likely to have asthma attacks (62.4%), emergency department or urgent care center visits (31.1%) and hospitalizations (10.4%) compared to older children who were 12 to 17 years-old(American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology).

Morbidity Rates Decreasing

From 2001 to 2016, the percentage of children with asthma who suffered from an asthma attack decreased from 61.7% to 53.7%(American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology).There were 3,615 asthma-related deaths in 2015. Children under 18 years old made up 219 of those deaths (American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology).          

Can Asthma Be Caused By Type Of Occupation?

An estimated 1.9 million cases of asthma among adults were work-related, accounting for 15.7% of current adult asthma cases(American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology). Work-related asthma significantly differs by age and is highest among persons aged 45–64 years (20.7%)(American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology). 

Asthma prevalence was highest among workers in the healthcare and social assistance industry, with 8.8% of workers reporting that they had asthma at the time of the survey(American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology). Participants in the educational services industry reported the second highest rate of asthma at 8.2%(American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology).  Among workers in the wood products manufacturing industry, 57.3% reported having an asthma attack in the last year which was the highest rate of all industries (American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology). Workers in the plastics and rubber products manufacturing were second most likely to suffer from an asthma attack, at a rate of 56.7%(American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology).

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