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Allergy Statistics
- Estimates from a skin test survey suggest that allergies affect
more than 50 million people in the United States.
- Allergic disease is the 5th leading chronic disease in the U.S.
among all ages, and the 3rd common chronic disease among children
under 18 years old.
- A recent nationwide survey found that more than half (54.6 percent)
of all U.S. citizens test positive to one or more allergens.
- The costs associated with allergic desease are extraordinarily
high: one analysis estimated it at $7.9 billion per year, of which
$4.5 billion was spent on direct care and $3.4 billion on indirect
costs, related primarily to lost work productivity.
Allergic Rhinitis
- Allergic rhinitis is believed to affect 20% of all adults and
up tp 40% of children.
- Approximately 16.7 million physician office visits each year
are attributed to allergic rhinitis.
- Immunotherapy is ultimately successful in up to 90% of patients
with seasonal allergic rhinitis and in 70 to 80% with perennial
allergic rhinitis.
- Allergic rhinitis and asthma are the two leading causes of absenteeism
due to chronic illness.
- On any given day, 10,000 American children miss school because
of allergic rhinitis, for an annual total of 2 million lost school
days.
Sinusitis
- Sinusitis develops in approximately 31 million Americans each
year.
- Chronic sinusitis affects nearly 37 million people in the United
States.
- People suffering from sinusitis miss an average of four days
of work each year.
- There are more than 18 million office visits to primary care
physicians resulting in a diagnosis of sinusitis annually.
- There is an association between sinusitis and asthma. The incidence
of sinusitis in asthmatic subjects ranges from 40 to 75%.
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