RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Changes in asthma mortality in England and Wales since 2001
JF Thorax
JO Thorax
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Thoracic Society
SP 1174
OP 1175
DO 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2019-213350
VO 74
IS 12
A1 Dominick E Shaw
A1 Catherine M Gaynor
A1 Andrew W Fogarty
YR 2019
UL http://thorax.bmj.com/content/74/12/1174.abstract
AB The number of deaths from asthma in England and Wales has not changed significantly over the last decade. This lack of improvement has received attention from both national asthma guidelines and the media. We examined asthma death data from the Office for National Statistics, stratified by age band. Every 5-year age band below the age of 80 years has seen a large reduction in mortality between 2001 and 2017, whereas numbers of asthma deaths have increased by 81% for people aged 80 years or above. This increase in older people dying from asthma requires explanation.