Three Facts About Asthma
Written by Clive Chung on 5:07 AMThree Facts About Asthma
The prevalence of asthma has doubled over the past 15 years. More than 3 million people have the condition in the UK - over one million of them school-age children. Today asthma is one of the most significant Western ailments. Why this illness is on the rise is not really known. The increase of pollutants in the atmosphere, cigarette smoke, higher standards of living in terms of centrally heated and carpeted homes are some of the many reasons cited. Environmental conditions certainly play an important part in triggering attacks in susceptible people. Also, asthma is better known. It is much more frequently diagnosed, so maybe we are getting to know of more asthma patients than were known in the past.
Three facts about asthma - The word asthma is derived from the Greek and it means panting or gasping for breath. The first mention of an asthma-like illness appeared over 3,500 years ago in Egypt in the Embers Papyrus. Since then we have come a long way in understanding the pathology of the condition and, of course, in treating it.
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