Health Survey for England 2010 | Findings

Dec 2011 |

Some key findings include:

9% of men and 10% of women currently had asthma, having experienced symptoms of asthma, or with their symptoms controlled by medication, in the last 12 months.

4% of men and 5% of women had ever been told by a doctor that they had chronic bronchitis, emphysema, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Prevalence was higher in the older age groups for both sexes, from 1% of men and no women (in the survey) aged 16-24, to 11% of men and 10% of women aged 65-74.

Measures of lung function were compared with expected values for people's sex, height and age. Lung function was considerably worse in current smokers than in people who had never smoked cigarettes regularly.