The research, funded by the British Lung Foundation, Asthma UK, the Medical Research Council, Imperial College London and the Wellcome Trust, is good news for the v million asthma sufferers in the UK because it may lead to a way of preventing attacks in future.
"The common cold is the independent reason wherefore people with asthma experience bad attacks," says Professor Neil Barnes, spokesperson for the British Lung Foundation. "This enquiry is of import because it helps us to empathize exactly what happens in our lungs during an asthma attack and it may lead to a way of preventing attacks in succeeding."
1. The British Lung Foundation is the simply UK charity working for everyone unnatural by lung disease. The charity focuses its resources on providing support for people unnatural by lung disease today; and industrial plant in a variety of ways (including funding foremost research) to bring around positive change, to ameliorate treatment, care and support for people affected by lung disease in the future.
2. It provides data via the website hTTP://www.lunguk.org and telephone helpline 08458 50 50 20.
3. In 2006 the charity launched a membership outline with the aim of recruiting the 8 1000000 people with lung disease in the UK and anyone with an interest in lung disease.
4. One person in every septenary in the UK is affected by lung disease - this equates to approximately 8 million the great unwashed
5. Respiratory disease is the second biggest killer in the UK (117,456 deaths in 2004) after all non-respiratory cancers combined which only account for slightly more than deaths (122,500 deaths in UK in 2004)
6. Respiratory disease now kills one in five people in the UK
7. The UK's death rate from respiratory disease is nigh double the European ordinary and the 6th highest in Europe
8. Respiratory disease is the most unremarkably reported recollective term malady in children and the third near commonly reported in adults. One in 7 boys and 1 in 8 girls aged 2 - 15 reputation having farsighted term respiratory illness in England
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