Numbers
Bronchial asthma can occur at any age, although most often the disease begins in childhood and adolescents.
Around 350 million people in the world suffer from AD. In Russia, according to the Ministry of Health for 2019, regarding 1.6 million. But this is official – those who have reached the doctor and who have been diagnosed.
However, according to Natalya Nenasheva, in fact, there may be much more Russians with asthma. According to the results of epidemiological studies, an average of 7% of adults and 10% of children have asthma – this is approximately 10-12 million people. According to the specialist, some of these people are being treated for such mythical diagnoses as asthmatic or obstructive bronchitis, pre-asthma, allergic rhinitis with an asthmatic component, bronchitis with an asthmatic component. And at this time they develop or already have a real asthma.