{"id":6980,"date":"2020-06-26T10:30:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T14:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=5035"},"modified":"2020-06-26T10:30:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T14:30:22","slug":"quickstats-age-adjusted-percentage-of-adults-aged-18-years-or-older-who-currently-have-asthma-by-sex-and-race-ethnicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2020\/06\/26\/6980\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Percentage of Adults Aged 18 Years or Older Who Currently Have Asthma by Sex and Race\/Ethnicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6925a7.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/figures\/mm6925a7-F.gif\" width=\"449\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During 2017\u20132018, women aged 18 years or older were more likely than men (9.7% versus 5.5%) to currently have asthma.<\/p>\n<p>This pattern prevailed in each of the race\/ethnicity groups: Hispanic adults (7.8% versus 3.9%); non-Hispanic white adults (10.3% versus 5.9%); non-Hispanic black adults (11.4% versus 6.2%); and non-Hispanic Asian adults (5.0% versus 3.3%).<\/p>\n<p>Non-Hispanic white and non-Hispanic black men were more likely to currently have asthma than were Hispanic and non-Hispanic Asian men.<\/p>\n<p>The same pattern existed among women.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Health Interview Survey, 2017\u20132018 data.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6925a7.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6925a7.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 2017\u20132018, women aged 18 years or older were more likely than men (9.7% versus 5.5%) to currently have asthma. This pattern prevailed in each of the race\/ethnicity groups: Hispanic adults (7.8% versus 3.9%); non-Hispanic white adults (10.3% versus 5.9%); non-Hispanic black adults (11.4% versus 6.2%); and non-Hispanic Asian adults (5.0% versus 3.3%). Non-Hispanic white<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59486,53746,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}