How many people in the UK have lung disease? Who is most affected? And how does lung disease impact the health service?
This website reports how many people in the UK are affected by each of the major lung diseases and how the figures vary by age, gender, region and standard of living. It also reveals the impact lung disease has on health services, such as hospital admissions and bed-days.
You can look at the big picture of lung disease in the UK, or detailed statistics for each condition including asthma, COPD, lung cancer and mesothelioma.
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Somebody dies from lung disease in the UK every 5 minutes.
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About 10,000 people in the UK are newly diagnosed with a lung disease every week.
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Approximately one in five people in the UK has ever developed asthma, COPD or another long-term respiratory illness. Half of them are currently on treatment (mainly inhalers) for lung disease.
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Lung diseases are responsible for more than 700,000 hospital admissions and over 6 million inpatient bed-days in the UK each year.
UK deaths from lung diseases compared with other major disease groups, 2012
For the past 3 years, we've been investigating the impact lung disease on UK.