QuickStudy - Asthma Care系列丛书.pdfVIP

BarCharts, Inc.® WORLD’S #1 QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE SCOPE OF THE PROBLEM PHYSICAL CHANGES A. Incidence Prevalence A. What happens when you breathe? RESPIRATORY SYSTEM 1. Asthma is a common disorder that affects 15 to 17 million people in 1. When you breathe in, air travels the United States through your nose and/or mouth through a tube called the trachea (al- 2. Thought to occur in 6.2% of the US population 3. Most common chronic disease of childhood, affecting an estimated 4.8 so known as the “windpipe”) Trachea 2. Air enters a series of smaller tubes that million children branch off from the trachea; these Primary 4. Causes approximately 100 million days of restricted activities each year. branched smaller tubes are the bronchi 5. Asthma precipitates more than 2 million adult emergency department bronchi, and they divide further into Secondary smaller tubes called the bronchioles visits each year