{"id":5365,"date":"2008-02-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.dev\/?p=5365"},"modified":"2008-02-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T00:00:00","slug":"webmd-allergy-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/webmd-allergy-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Allergy &#038; Asthma Facts from WebMD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/images\/ivker-tissue.jpg' alt='allergy facts' border='0' align='right'><a href='http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/allergies\/living-with-8\/allergy-statistics-facts' target='_blank'>WebMD<\/a> reports on allergy facts and statistics, based on the best available data:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Percentage of the U.S. population that tests positive to one or more allergens: 55%.<\/li>\n<li>Number of people in the U.S. who have either allergy or asthma symptoms: 1 in 5.<\/li>\n<li>Rank of allergies among other leading chronic diseases in the U.S.: 5th.<\/li>\n<li>One estimate of the annual cost of allergies to the health care system and businesses in the U.S.: $7.9 billion.<\/li>\n<li>Number of workdays lost each year as a result of hay fever: 4 million.<\/li>\n<li>Number of weeks by which the ragweed pollen season has increased in the last 10 to 15 years, likely as a result of global warming: 4.<\/li>\n<li>Odds that a child with one allergic parent will develop allergies: 33%.<\/li>\n<li>Odds that a child with two allergic parents will develop allergies: 70%.<\/li>\n<li>Number of ER visits in the U.S. caused by food allergies each year: 30,000.<\/li>\n<li>Percentage of the people in the U.S. who believe they have a food allergy: up to 15%.<\/li>\n<li>Percentage of the people in the U.S. who actually have a food allergy: 3% to 4%.<\/li>\n<li>Percentage of our lives that we spend indoors: 90%.<\/li>\n<li>Degree by which levels of indoor pollution in U.S. homes exceed levels of outdoor pollution: 2 to 100 times, depending on factors such as whether the residents smoke.<\/li>\n<li>Percentage of U.S. households with one or more dogs: 39%.<\/li>\n<li>Percentage of U.S. households with one or more cats: 36%.<\/li>\n<li>Percentage of all U.S. households with detectable levels of dog and cat dander: 100%.<\/li>\n<li>Increase in the prevalence of asthma in the U.S. between 1980 and 1994: 75%.<\/li>\n<li>Increase in the prevalence of asthma in U.S. children under age 5 between 1980 and 1994: 160%.<\/li>\n<li>Percentage of annual ER visits in the U.S. caused by asthma: 25%.<\/li>\n<li>Percentage of people hospitalized for asthma who are children: About 44%.<\/li>\n<li>Number of deaths each year in the U.S. from asthma: About 5,000.<\/li>\n<li>Number of people with chronic allergy-like symptoms &#8212; runny nose, congestion and cough &#8212; but who have nonallergic rhinitis instead: 1 out of 3.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WebMD reports on allergy facts and statistics, based on the best available data: Percentage of the U.S. population that tests positive to one or more allergens: 55%. Number of people in the U.S. who have either allergy or asthma symptoms:&hellip; <\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-categories\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[188],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}