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In the past year, an estimated more than one million patients were hospitalized and nearly three million visited emergency rooms in the United States as a result of asthma, according to a new comprehensive national survey. Additionally, approximately one in three asthma patients 12 and older surveyed were hospitalized, visited emergency rooms or had other unscheduled healthcare visits due to their asthma in the past year.
Additional findings include:
- One in five asthma patients live in fear of hospitalizations or emergency room visits due to asthma and 29 percent of patients say that fear of asthma exacerbations keeps them from doing the things they want.
- Twelve percent of asthma patients who had an episode in the past year when asthma symptoms were more frequent or severe than normal report that these episodes last between seven and 13 days, while 18 percent reported that these episodes last three to four days. The mean duration of these episodes is 6.5 days.
- Asthma patients report a 33 percent decline in average productivity at times of the year when asthma was at its worst compared to a typical day.
- Adult asthma patients reported taking an average of 12.4 sick days compared with 3.6 sick days for adults without asthma in the past year, and 37.9 days in which they limited their activities compared with 15.8 days for adults without asthma in the past year.2
- Twenty-eight percent of adult asthma patients say they feel “a lot” or “some” limitations in social activities due to their asthma compared to 14 percent of adults without asthma who say they feel “a lot” or “some” limitations in social activities due to their health.
Nearly half of the general adult population surveyed (45 percent) report that they or another family member have had asthma. (Asthma Insight and Management (AIM) Survey: Executive Summary. 2009)
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