Fact Sheets

Quick Facts

Eat Your Broccoli! UCLA researchers report that sulforaphane, a compound found in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables, may help protect against respiratory inflammation - an indication of conditions like asthma, allergic rhinitis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Mission

The West Virginia Asthma Education and Prevention Program aspires to raise awareness of asthma as a priority health concern in the state and to reduce suffering, disability, death, and economic costs related to the disease.

Asthma Fact Sheets

The Fact Sheets and other publications provide a brief overview of asthma in West Virginia by priority population - children, adult women, seniors, and low socio-economic populations (as listed in the A Strategic Plan for Addressing Asthma in West Virginia 2010-2014). For additional information or data on these topics, please view The Burden of Asthma in West Virginia 2007 and the Health Statistics Center Briefs.

For information not contained in these publications please contact the WVAEPP Surveillance Epidemiologist listed on this site under the tab About The WVAEPP - Personnel.

Download the Fact Sheets (PDF):

NEW* Asthma in West Virginia Fact Sheet (Oct 2012)

NEW*Asthma & Seniors in West Virginia Fact Sheet (Oct 2012)

NEW*Asthma & Women in West Virgnia Fact Sheet (Oct 2012)

NEW*Asthma & Children in West Virginia Fact Sheet (Oct 2012)

NEW*Asthma & the Flu in West Virginia Fact Sheet (Oct 2012)

For Information on the State Asthma Plan for West Virginia go to "Asthma Strategic Plan" tab. Click here.

Other Statistical Publications

WV Medical Journal Article "West Virginia Health Statistics Center Child Asthma Survey Enables Development of State Asthma Plan" May/June 2010

CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report May 3, 2011 - World Asthma Day Release

National Health Statistics Report January 2011 - Asthma Prevalence 2005-2009

Pneumoconiosis and Advanced Occupational Lung Disease Among Surface Coal Miners 2010-2011 - CDC MMWR report