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> One in 10 people do NOT have asthma. You are incorrect. Current prevalence state-wide is 8%[0] and lifetime prevalence is 14%, indicating that many people ar
by chimeracoder 3y ago
> One in 10 people do NOT have asthma.
You are incorrect. Current prevalence state-wide is 8%[0] and lifetime prevalence is 14%, indicating that many people are expected to develop asthma but have not yet been diagnosed.
Incidence is more concentrated in the city due to a strong causative relationship between asthma and certain measurable factors: poverty, childhood exposure to vehicular-generated air pollution, and the tendency to have highways located near poorer neighborhoods.
If you look at a map of asthma incidence in the city by neighborhood, this heterogeneous distribution is even clearer.
[0] https://www.cdc.gov/asthma/stateprofiles/asthma_in_nys.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/asthma/stateprofiles/asthma_in_nys.pdf
- quesera 3y ago> Current prevalence state-wide is 8%[0] and lifetime prevalence is 14%, indicating that many people are expected to develop asthma but have not yet been diagnosed Perhaps a bathtub curve? Many people have childhood asthma which resolves in adolescence. So they'd count for lifetime but not current.
- b112 3y agoWell, all I can say, is these numbers seem crazy to me. It appears that the condition is all a mishmash of "lungs in bad state", predicated by anything from "that dude was breathing deadly toxic air", to "always like this". I think there should be more nuance here, but concede you are correct as the subject is discussed.