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The Week Magazine |
Doctors are way overdiagnosing asthma
The Week Magazine There's a paradox here: As recently as the 1980s, asthma was underdiagnosed and undertreated, and in impoverished urban areas it still is, killing 3,630 people in the United States in 2013. Yet the prevalence of asthma more than doubled from the 1980s … |
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STAT |
Are doctors overdiagnosing asthma?
STAT There's a paradox here: As recently as the 1980s, asthma was underdiagnosed and undertreated, and in impoverished urban areas it still is, killing 3,630 people in the United States in 2013. Yet the prevalence of asthma more than doubled from the 1980s … Asthma inhalers given out almost as a 'fashion accessory', experts warn Asthma 'over-diagnosed and trivialised' Asthma inhalers handed out like fashion accessories, doctors warn |
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BreakingNews.ie |
Doctors 'over-diagnosing asthma in children'
BreakingNews.ie Writing in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, the authors highlight a previous study in which half of 100 children with chronic cough received an asthma diagnosis, but once the coughs were thoroughly investigated, the number actually thought to have … |
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