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Every year 120,000 Arizona Children are diagnosed with asthma and 3,000 are hospitalized costing Arizonans millions in direct medical costs. (Photo credit: Creative Commons)

Increasing asthma cases a burden on Arizona

Yara Askar December 4, 2014

More than 600,000 Arizonans are affected by asthma, a controllable chronic disease, with approximately 80 deaths each year, according to the Arizona Asthma Coalition. There are approximately 120,000 Arizonan...

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