An estimated 450,000 American adults are admitted to an emergency room with asthma each year. The number of deaths from asthma increased from about 2,900 in 1908 to a high of 5,667 in 1996. The numbers appear to be declining slightly, and in2002 about 4,260 people died because of asthma. Death from asthma is still a very uncommon event, considering that an estimated 20 million people in the U.S. have this condition. Most deaths from asthma, even when they occur in elderly adults, are pr...
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