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Asthma Insight and Management (AIM), the largest and most comprehensive survey of asthma in the United States conducted in more than a decade, reveals limited progress in reducing hospitalizations and emergency room visits due to asthma over the past ten years

MIAMI, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- In the past year, an estimated more than one million patients were hospitalized and nearly three million visited emergency rooms in the United States as a result of asthma, according to a new comprehensive national survey.(1, 2) Additionally, approximately one in three asthma patients 12 and older surveyed were hospitalized, visited emergency rooms or had other unscheduled ... 







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