title: Managing asthma: An adolescent good news story.
abstract: In any 12 month period up to 20 per cent of the population will have symptoms of asthma. For some these will be mild and occasional, for others it will be a daily problem requiring medical intervention and even hospitalisation. More than 30 per cent of Australian children have been affected by asthma by the time they reach eight years of age. By the time they are aged 12 this may have risen to over 45 per cent.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001249:Asthma / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D001315:Australia / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans