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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2011 Jul 27;128(3):485–494. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2011.07.010

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Figure 2a. Asthma hospitalizations per 10,000 population, United States, 1980–2008

Figure 2b. Asthma deaths per 100,000 population, United States 1981–2007

Source: National Hospital Discharge Survey, Mortality Component of the National Vital Statistics System; National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Note: Asthma hospitalizations are first-listed using ICD-9CM code 493; Asthma deaths include those with underlying cause coded as ICD9 code 493 from 1981–1998, and ICD10 codes J45-J46 from 1999–2007.