Prevalence and Incidence of Lung conditions
Prevalance of Lung conditions:
more than 30 million Americans with chronic lung diseases (NWHIC) ... see also overview of Lung conditions.
Prevalance Rate:
approx 1 in 9 or 11.03% or 30 million people in USA [Source statistic for calcuation: "more than 30 million Americans with chronic lung diseases (NWHIC)" -- see also general information about data sources]
Prevalance of types of Lung conditions:
For details see prevalence of types of Lung conditions analysis; summary of available prevalence data:
- Chronic Bronchitis: 12.1 million Americans (NHLBI)
- Emphysema: 2 million Americans (NHLBI); 17 per 1000 - NHIS95; 2 million annually
- COPD: 13.5 million Americans (NHLBI)
- Cystic fibrosis: 1 per 31,000 Asian American newborns suffer from cystic fibrosis in the US, genetics Home Reference website
- Asthma: 6.4% USA (NIAID); 17 million Americans (NIAID) including 5 million children; 8.1 million children (NHIS-97), 51 per 1000 - NHIS95; 14.5 million; 5% of population (NWHIC); 14.9 million in 1995 (NHLBI)
- Sarcoidosis: 20 per 100,000 overall; 5 in 100,000 white people; 40 out of 100,000 black people; Scandinavia 64 out of 100,000 people
- Familial emphysema: 70,000 Americans
- Lymphangioleiomyomatosis: Several hundred people in the USA (NHLBI)
- Respiratory conditions: 78.9 per 100 (NHIS96)
- Respiratory distress syndrome: 40,000 infants and 150,000 adults with adult RDS (NHLBI)
- Goodpasture syndrome: rare.
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Lung conditions Prevalence: Book Excerpts
Incidence of types of Lung conditions:
For details see incidence of types of Lung conditions analysis; summary of available incidence by type data:
- Pneumonia: 4.8 million annual cases (1996); 1.8 per 100 (NHIS96)
- Lung cancer: 169,400 annual cases (SEER 2002 estimate: lung and bronchus cancers)
- Bronchopulmonary dysplasia: 5,000 to 10,000 new cases
- Cystic fibrosis: 2,500 babies annually USA; 1 in 3,000 Caucasian babies
- Sarcoidosis: 20 per 100,000 in the city, less in the country.
- Anthrax: 0 annual cases notified in USA 1999 (MMWR 1999)
- Diphtheria: 1 annual case notified in USA 1999 (MMWR 1999)
- Drowning: 1 per 100,000 population drowns in Australia 2002 (Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
- Familial emphysema: 1 in 3,000 newborns
- Pneumococcal pneumonia: 500,000 cases annually (NIAID)
- Primary pulmonary hypertension: 300 new cases annually (NHLBI)
- Respiratory diphtheria: Approximately 0.001 per 100,000 in USA (DBMD)
- Suffocation: 1,388 annual cases in Victoria 1996 of suffocation and foreign bodies (DHS-VIC)
- Tuberculosis: 18,361 cases annually in the USA (1998); 8 million people worldwide develop active TB and 3 million die; 17,531 annual cases notified in USA 1999 (MMWR 1999); 5.50 per 100,000 in Canada 20001
- Flu: 36 per 100 (NHIS96); 35 million annually up to 50 million annually (NIAID/CDC); 10-20% yearly (NIAID)
- Pulmonary embolism: approximately 650,000 cases annually in the USA
- Pulmonary thromboembolism: approximately 650,000 cases annually in the USA
- Adult respiratory distress syndrome: 150,000 adults (NHLBI)
- Acute Bronchitis: 4.6 per 100 (NHIS96: acute bronchitis); 14.2 million cases annually
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Prevalance of Lung conditions:
More than 30 million Americans are now living with chronic
lung disease. (Source: excerpt from Lung Disease: NWHIC)
Prevelance statistics for Lung conditions:
The following statistics relate to the prevalence of Lung conditions:
- 71,900 home health care patients had chronic pulmonary disease as a primary diagnosis in the US 2000 (National Home and Hospice Care Survey, NCHS, CDC)
- 5.3% of home health care patients had chronic pulmonary disease as a primary diagnosis in the US 2000 (National Home and Hospice Care Survey, NCHS, CDC)
- 4,500 hospice care patients had chronic pulmonary disease as a primary diagnosis in the US 2000 (National Home and Hospice Care Survey, NCHS, CDC)
- 4.3% of hospice care patients had chronic pulmonary disease as a primary diagnosis in the US 2000 (National Home and Hospice Care Survey, NCHS, CDC)
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Death statistics for Lung conditions:
The following statistics relate to deaths and Lung conditions:
- 123,013 people died from chronic pulmonary disease each year in the US 2001 (Deaths: Final Data for 2001, NCHS, CDC)
- Chronic pulmonary disease is ranked the fourth leading cause of death in the US 2001 (Deaths: Final Data for 2001, NCHS, CDC)
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More Statistics about Lung conditions:
Deaths and related statistics
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Prevalence/Incidence of Lung conditions: Online Medical Books
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Lung cancer:
Causes and incidence
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Most experts agree that lung cancer is attributable to inhalation of carcinogenic pollutants by a susceptible host. Who's most susceptible? Any smoker older than age 40, especially if he began to smoke before age 15, has smoked a whole pack or more per day for 20 years, or works with or near asbestos.
Pollutants in tobacco smoke cause progressive lung cell degeneration. Lung cancer is 10 times more common in smokers than in nonsmokers; 80% of patients with lung cancer are smokers. Cancer risk is determined by the number of cigarettes smoked daily, the depth of inhalation, how early in life smoking began, and the nicotine content of cigarettes. Two other factors also increase susceptibility: exposure to carcinogenic industrial and air pollutants (asbestos, uranium, arsenic, nickel, iron oxides, chromium, radioactive dust, and coal dust) and familial susceptibility.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
About prevalence and incidence statistics:
The term 'prevalence' of Lung conditions usually refers to the estimated population
of people who are managing Lung conditions at any given time.
The term 'incidence' of Lung conditions refers to the annual diagnosis rate,
or the number of new cases of Lung conditions diagnosed each year.
Hence, these two statistics types can differ:
a short-lived disease like flu can have high annual incidence but low prevalence,
but a life-long disease like diabetes has a low annual incidence but high prevalence.
For more information see about prevalence and incidence statistics.
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