Medical Matters
Asthma
Asthma: Facts
- 1 in every 12 adults in the UK live with Asthma, approximately 4.3 million adults.
- 1 in every 11 children in the UK live with Asthma, approximately 1.1 million.
- On average, 3 people die from an asthma attach in the UK every day.
- The NHS spend around £1 billion a year treating people with Asthma.
- There are 300 million Alveoli in the lungs and when filled with air, make the lungs the only organ in the human body that can float.
"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
