Health: Asthma likely to be a lifetime condition

Anyone with asthma has a high likelihood of having the chronic lung disease for life, a new Canadian study suggests.

The study of more than 613,394 people identified as having asthma in 1993, and tracked over 15 years, found that most were dealing with the lung problem most of the time, although that was interspersed with periods when the condition seemed to be in remission and they weren't getting medical help.

In fact, of the 613,394 individuals, 504,851 (82.3 per cent) had active asthma during the 15-year followup.

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