Geneva, Switzerland.- The word STOP to tell us to stop the pathology, along with the slogan "You can control your asthma" guide this 2019 ephemeris, hosted by the Global Initiative for Asthma and held for the first time in 1998 in more than 35 countries.
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There are 235 million people with this condition and 10 percent of them are children, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), because it is a chronic disease most often in childhood, characterized by episodes of respiratory distress.
In Cuba, according to the most recent statistics, the prevalence at the close of 2018 was 92.6 percent.
On the first Tuesday of May, World Asthma Day is held to raise public awareness about the care of this disease, one of the main non-communicable diseases, which has a low case fatality rate compared to other chronic ones. (PL)
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