Day of struggle with asthma: in Russia more asthmatics

In Russia, the growing number of cases of asthma. According to the Ministry of Health, it has exceeded one million.

Experts are even less optimistic in their assessments. According to them, the number of patients has already reached six million people. So said the chief physician of the Russian Federation Ministry of Public Health, Director of the Research Institute of Pulmonology Alexander Chuchalin . His speech is confined to International Day against asthma . He proclaimed the World Health Organization (WHO) and is held annually on the first Tuesday of May. First Asthma Day was celebrated in 1998 in 35 countries.

As the Alexander Chuchalin . bronchial asthma   - A socially significant disease. She was exposed to all - from children to the elderly. The disease is very common in the United States (asthma patients 12 per cent) and Australia (15 percent of children exposed to the disease). Moreover, in the world there is a tendency to increase the number of patients asthma .

Russia has the highest incidence occurred in the Krasnodar and Stavropol in the North Caucasus. This is due to the spread in the regions of the weed Ambrosia. The flowering period of ragweed (July-August), in those areas of the country begins the epidemic of asthma. Also, the risk of disease prone urban dwellers due to poor environmental conditions. For example, in Moscow often suffer from asthma Kapotnya residents and the Central District. One of the new factors influencing the incidence - the emergence of canned and genetically modified foods. They became new allergens for humans.

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