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DID YOU KNOW?
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Facts |
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Our Local Area |
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In 2005, an
estimated 25,367 children in Kent, Ottawa, and Muskegon
counties have asthma. |
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Children with
asthma in West Michigan miss over 51,000 days of school each
year. |
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The loss of
productivity by working parents in West Michigan caring for
children who miss school due to asthma is estimated at 5.18
million a year. |
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Employees with
asthma with asthma in West Michigan miss over 100,000 workdays
each year. |
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In 2004, a Kent
County high school basketball payer collapsed and died during
practice due to asthma. |
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| In
Michigan |
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In Michigan,
asthma is the leading cause of preventable hospitalizations in
children under 15 years. |
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African American
children are hospitalized for asthma at a rate 4.2 times that
for Caucasian children. |
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One in five
children with asthma in Michigan experience daily symptoms. |
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One in four
children with asthma in Michigan have visited the emergency
room in the past year. |
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Asthma deaths for
African American children occur at a rate 6 times that for
Caucasian children. |
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The total cost of
asthma in Michigan is over $460,000,000 per year. |
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| In
The United States |
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Asthma is an
important public health problem in the United States,
affecting over 20 million adults and over 9 million children
under 18 years of age. |
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Uncontrolled
asthma results in about 2 million trips to the emergency room
every year. |
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Annually, there
are nearly 500,000 hospitalizations in the United States due
to asthma. |
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More than 5,000
deaths are attributable to asthma each year * most of them are
preventable. |
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The U.S. Senate
found that "the prevalence of asthma among
African-American children was 40 percent greater than among
Caucasian children, and more than 26 percent of all asthma
deaths are in the African-American population." |
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