UK asthma sufferers experience three times more attacks than previously suggested, charity warns The number of potentially life-threatening asthma attacks suffered in the UK each year is more than three-times higher than previously thought, according to new data.
The Asthma UK charity surveyed more than 10,000 people with asthma and found each had an attack on average twice a year.
Extrapolated across 5.4 million people in the UK currently being treatment for asthma, experts calculated that this averaged one attack every three seconds.
Previous studies have suggested that the rate was closer to one every 10 seconds, the charity said. The Independent
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The Asthma UK charity surveyed more than 10,000 people with asthma and found each had an attack on average twice a year.
Extrapolated across 5.4 million people in the UK currently being treatment for asthma, experts calculated that this averaged one attack every three seconds.
Previous studies have suggested that the rate was closer to one every 10 seconds, the charity said. The Independent
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