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Prevalence Statistics for Types of Respiratory conditions

Prevalence Statistics for Types of Respiratory conditions

The information below shows a list of types of Respiratory conditions, with information as to the prevalence of each of these types. Estimates of the people affected are calculated based on the available statistic.

Disease	Prevalence Estimate	US people estimate	Statistic Used for Calculation
Respiratory conditions (overall)	approx 1 in 1 or 78.90% or 214.6 million people in USA	214,608,004	78.9 per 100 (NHIS96)
Common cold	N/A	N/A	No information
Flu	N/A	N/A	No information
Whooping cough	N/A	N/A	No information
Bronchitis	N/A	N/A	No information
COPD	approx 1 in 20 or 4.96% or 13.5 million people in USA	13,500,000	13.5 million Americans (NHLBI)
Emphysema	approx 1 in 136 or 0.74% or 2 million people in USA	1,999,999	2 million Americans (NHLBI); 17 per 1000 - NHIS95; 2 million annually
Asthma	approx 1 in 15 or 6.40% or 17.4 million people in USA	17,408,000	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)
Lung conditions	approx 1 in 9 or 11.03% or 30 million people in USA	29,999,998	more than 30 million Americans with chronic lung diseases (NWHIC)
Respiratory infections	N/A	N/A	No information
Adult respiratory distress syndrome	N/A	N/A	No information
Allergies	approx 1 in 5 or 18.38% or 50 million people in USA	49,999,999	50-60 million (NIAID); 9-16% (NIAID); 50 million cases annually (NIAID); 10% of American women (NHWIC); 8,526,000 children respiratory allergies (NHIS-97); 7,304,000 children non-respiratory allergies (NHIS-97)
Bronchiectasis	N/A	N/A	No information
Bronchiolitis	N/A	N/A	No information
Bronchopulmonary dysplasia	N/A	N/A	No information
Chlamydia pneumoniae	N/A	N/A	No information
Chronic Bronchitis	approx 1 in 22 or 4.45% or 12.1 million people in USA	12,099,999	12.1 million Americans (NHLBI)
Chronic lower respiratory diseases	approx 1 in 8 or 11.76% or 32 million people in USA	31,999,999	estimated 32 million including 15 million undiagnosed
Croup	N/A	N/A	No information
Drowning	N/A	N/A	No information
Familial emphysema	approx 1 in 3,885 or 0.03% or 70,000 people in USA	90,666	70,000 Americans
High altitude pulmonary edema	N/A	N/A	No information
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis	N/A	N/A	No information
Interstitial lung disease	N/A	N/A	No information
Lymphangioleiomyomatosis	N/A	N/A	Several hundred people in the USA (NHLBI)
Mountain sickness	N/A	N/A	No information
Neonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome	approx 1 in 6,800 or 0.01% or 40,000 people in USA	40,000	40,000 infants and 150,000 adults with adult RDS (NHLBI)
Parainfluenza	N/A	N/A	No information
Pleural effusion	N/A	N/A	No information
Pleurisy	N/A	N/A	No information
Pneumothorax	N/A	N/A	No information
Primary pulmonary hypertension	N/A	N/A	No information
Psittacosis	N/A	N/A	No information
Pulmonary edema	N/A	N/A	No information
Pulmonary embolism	N/A	N/A	No information
Pulmonary hypertension	N/A	N/A	No information
Q fever	N/A	N/A	No information
Respiratory failure	N/A	N/A	No information
Respiratory syncytial virus	N/A	N/A	No information
Sarcoidosis	approx 1 in 5,000 or 0.02% or 54,400 people in USA	54,399	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
SARS	N/A	N/A	No information
Smoking	approx 1 in 4 or 22.30% or 60.7 million people in USA	60,655,997	22.3% of Americans smoke (CDC); 23 million American women smoke (NHLBI)
Stridor	N/A	N/A	No information
Suffocation	N/A	N/A	No information
Tuberculosis	N/A	N/A	No information
Wheezing	N/A	N/A	No information

Prevalence Statistics for Respiratory conditions

Prevalance of Respiratory conditions:

78.9 per 100 (NHIS96)

Prevalance Rate:

approx 1 in 1 or 78.90% or 214.6 million people in USA [about data]

Types of Respiratory conditions

For more information about types of Respiratory conditions, refer to our section on types of Respiratory conditions.

About prevalence:

The medical term 'prevalence' of Respiratory conditions usually refers to the estimated population of people who are managing Respiratory conditions at any given time, whereas the annual diagnosis rate of new cases of Respiratory conditions is called the 'incidence'. For more information on prevalence and incidence statistics, see about prevalence and incidence statistics.

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