Increasing asthma cases a burden on Arizona

TUCSON — More than 600,000 Arizonans are affected by asthma, a controllable chronic disease, with approximately 80 deaths each year, according to the Arizona Asthma Coalition.
There are approximately 120,000 Arizonan children with asthma, and every year, asthma has led to 3,000 hospitalizations, costing Arizonans several millions of dollars in direct medical costs, according to the Arizona Health Sciences Center at the University of Arizona.....

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A third of Team Sky’s riders are asthmatic - and it may be a hazard of being an elite athlete

A study carried out by John Dickinson, head of the respiratory clinic at the University of Kent, has found that a third of Team Sky’s riders suffer from asthma to some degree. The Guardian reports how Dickinson’s research has revealed that a surprisingly large number of elite athletes have asthma across many different sports.
The national asthma rate is about 8-10 per cent. However, Dickinson found that rates were sometimes even higher in top level sport.  Having also tested all 33 UK-based swimmers from the British Swimming squad, 70 per cent were found to suffer.....

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