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Affected individuals in the U.S.

~Asthma is a very common disease in the United States.



~More than 20 million people are affected.



~One third of the 20 million infected people are childen.



~In 2002, 478,000 hospitalizations and 4,657 deaths were attributed to asthma in the United States.

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