National Asthma Education Program.
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FIGURE 2. Mortality. In 1988, 4,580 people died from asthma in the United States. Asthma mortality has increased slightly over the past decade. The greatest increase in the asthma death rate has occurred in those older than 65 years of age. In 1979, blacks of both sexes were about twice as likely to die from asthma as whites. Over the past decade this ratio has increased, and by 1987 the asthma death rate was almost three times greater among blacks than whites, *Director, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Chest
دوره 98 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1990