The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 272 No 7287 p208
21 February 2004

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UK children report most asthma symptoms

Children in the UK report more asthma symptoms than children anywhere else in the world, according to the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA), an industry-sponsored body set up to reduce asthma prevalence, morbidity and mortality.

Details from a report to be published in full by GINA later this year suggest that one in 20 people in the world now has asthma. The figure is based on epidemiology studies in more than 80 countries and shows that prevalence in the UK is higher than average at 10-15 per cent. The report also reveals that around 20,000 new cases of asthma are diagnosed each week by GPs in the UK.

Details from the report were presented by GINA at the World Asthma meeting held in Bangkok earlier this week.