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| IMMUNE-MEDIATED DISEASES: STATISTICS AND FACTS |
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- 300 million people of all ages, and all ethnic backgrounds, suffer from asthma.
- More than 60 million people in America have asthma or allergies, costing the U.S. economy over $20 billion each year in hospitalizations, medical services, lost productivity at work or school, and more.
- Asthma accounts for nearly 500,000 hospitalizations, 2 million emergency department visits, and 5,000 deaths in the United States each year.
- Atopic dermatitis is a common inflammatory skin condition that affects up to 20% of children and up to 3% of adults in Western countries, developing in almost 60% of patients during the first year of life, and in an additional 25% between the ages of 1 and 5 years.
- A recent nationwide survey found that more than half (54.6 percent) of all U.S. citizens test positive to one or more allergens, and allergies are the 6th leading cause of chronic disease, responsible for an estimated $18 billion in annual health-care costs.
- Allergies affect as many as 40 to 50 million people in the United States
- Allergic diseases affect more than 20% of the U.S. population
- In the United States, asthma affected an estimated 5 million children (under age 18) out of an estimated 70 million children
- Allergic diseases are the sixth leading cause of chronic disease in the United States
- It is estimated that increased absenteeism and reduced productivity due to allergies cost U.S. companies more than $250 million/year
- At least 36 million people in the United States have seasonal allergic rhinitis (16.7 million office visits)
- The estimated overall costs of allergic rhinitis in the United States totaled $6 billion/year
- Sinusitis develops in approximately 35 million Americans each year
- Overall health care expenditures attributable to sinusitis in the United States were estimated to be over $6 billion
- Cancer accounts for 7 million deaths per year worldwide
- About 1,300,000 new cases of cancer were diagnosed yearly in the US
- Every year about 560,000 Americans are expected to die of cancer; more than 1,500 people a day
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