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It is estimated that more than 15 million Americans currently have asthma (Table 1) and that the incidence has increased by about 60% in the past decade, not only in the United States but worldwide. Asthma was estimated to cost approximately $9.5 billion in 1997, to be the cause of the most pediatric hospitalizations, to be the sixth most common cause for all hospitalizations, and to cause more than 5000 deaths/yr (an increase of nearly 80% in the past decade).
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Kaliner, M.A. (2000). Asthma in Adults. In: Lieberman, P., Anderson, J.A. (eds) Allergic Diseases. Current Clinical Practice. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-007-0_8
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