Submitted by GAtherton on 7 September 2015
British Lung Foundation is lobbying parliament to give more importance to lung disease. This follows BLF research on the impact of lung disease in the UK.
Did you know:
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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 nearly 700,000 hospital admissions and over 6 million inpatient bed-days in the UK each year.
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