A common cause of emergency department visits, asthma is on the rise. Find out how to keep patients breathing easy. Asthma does not kill. Asthma is an intermittent problem, not a chronic one. Asthma affects only children.
Children outgrow asthma.
This article will separate the fact from the fiction. Despite medical advances, morbidity and deaths from asthma have increased dramatically over the past several years. And many adults are being diagnosed with asthma later in life. Asthma is the sixth leading cause of hospital admissions. This chronic inflammatory disorder is characterized by reversible airflow obstruction with or without medical intervention and airway hyperresponsiveness to normal stimuli.