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State of Childhood Asthma, United States: 1980-2005 Report Released December 12, 2006 http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/06fac ts/asthma1980-2005.htm
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Percentage of Children with Asthma The percentage of children who had asthma more than doubled between 1980 and 1995 3.6% 1980 7.5% 1995 In 2001, CDC introduced a more precise measurement of asthma and the 5 years since then the trend has remained stable at historically high levels (Currently approx. 9%).
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Racial Disparities In 2005, nearly 9% of children – 6.5 million children under age18 – were reported to currently have asthma. Puerto Rican children were reported to have the highest percentage of asthma 19.2% followed by non-Hispanic black children 12.7%
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Missed School Days According to 2003 data, children with at least one asthma attack in the previous year (nearly 4 million children) missed a cumulative of 12.8 million school days due to asthma.
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Emergency Department and Physician Office Visits Asthma-related emergency department visits for children have remained fairly stable from ‘92 to ’04 9.76 visits/1,000 children in 1992 10.3 visits/1,000 children in 2004 Asthma-related visits to physician offices have increased sharply since the early 1990s < 40 visits/1,000 children in 1990 89 visits/1,000 children in 2004
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Death Rates After increasing steadily between ‘80 and ‘98, asthma death rates among children have for the most part declined since ‘99. A change in the way causes of death were coded resulted in a sizable 1-year decline between 1998 and 1999. Since 1999, the asthma death rate for children has fallen 3.0 deaths/1,000,000 children in 1999 2.5 deaths/1,000,000 in 2004
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States with Highest Percentages of Children with Asthma Among the 37 states for which data were available the highest percentage of children with asthma were: Massachusetts Hawaii Oklahoma Maryland Rhode Island
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States with Lowest Percentages of Children with Asthma Among the 37 states for which data were available the lowest percentage of children with asthma were: Utah California According to the 2003 CA Health Interview Study 9% of CA children suffered from an asthma attack or other asthma symptom in 2003) Iowa Tennessee Washington
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