Sec. 7301. National asthma burden
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Congress finds as follows: The prevalence of asthma has increased since 1980 and affects more than 26,000,000 people in the United States. Significant disparities in asthma morbidity and mortality exist for both adults and children particularly for low-income and minority populations, particularly African Americans and Puerto Ricans. African-American children are twice as likely to have asthma as White children. In 2016, almost 4,500,000 non-Hispanic African Americans reported having asthma.
African Americans with asthma are 3 times as likely to visit the emergency department and twice as likely to get hospitalized as White patients with asthma. Puerto Ricans are 3.4 times as likely to die from asthma compared with all other Hispanic or Latino groups. Overall Hispanic Americans are 30 percent more likely to be hospitalized for asthma than non-Hispanic Whites. The majority of adults with asthma are women.