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Article: "The Asthma, COPD & Allergic Rhinitis Market Outlook to 2011" by Business Insights.
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- August 25, 2006
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M2 PRESSWIRE-25 August 2006-MindBranch: "The Asthma, COPD & Allergic Rhinitis Market Outlook to 2011" by Business Insights(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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The prevalence of asthma in 2005 across the US, Japan, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and the UK was estimated at 53.2m people, corresponding to a prevalence rate of 7.7%. The highest prevalence rate for asthma in any country in 2005 was 12.0% in the UK. It is forecast that by 2011, the total prevalence of asthma across the seven major markets will be 58.8m sufferers or 8.0% of the population. COPD is only significantly prevalent in adults, a contrary situation to that of asthma, in ...