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BRANCH County Asthma Statistics

  • The percent of adults with asthma could not be reliably estimated. [2019-2021 Michigan Behavioral Risk Factor Survey]

  • The percent of children with asthma could not be reliably estimated. [2019-2021 Michigan Behavioral Risk Factor Survey]

  • The mortality rate was not calculated due to the low number of asthma deaths.2 [2017-2019 Mortality Files]

  • There are about 26 hospitalizations each year in BRANCH County for asthma. The rate of asthma hospitalization is 6.3 hospital stays per 10,000 people. 1 [2018-2020 Michigan Inpatient Data Base]

Table 1. Annual Average Numbers and Age-Adjusted Rates Per 10,000 of Asthma Hospitalizations
by Gender, Age and Race in BRANCH County and Michigan, 2018-20201
[Michigan Inpatient Data Base]

Group Average Number of
Hospitalizations per Year
in BRANCH County
BRANCH County
Asthma Hospitalization Rate
per 10,000 People
Michigan Asthma
Hospitalization Rate
per 10,000 People
Sex
Male 5 ~ 4.6
Female 21 11.5 6.5
Race
White 25 6.6 3.1
Black 0 0.0 17.5
Age
0 to 17 2 ~ 9.1
18 and Older 23 7.6 4.3
 
All Ages 26 6.3 5.6
*Rates are age-adjusted to the 2000 US population. 2018-2020 yearly bridged-race population estimates provided by the National Vital Statistics System and maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were used in calculations. For records missing data on race, race was assigned based on the hospitalized population within that data year.

~Insufficient data to compute a stable rate (Total count of events 1-19 between 2018 and 2020).


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Footnotes

1
Rates and percents are age-adjusted to the 2000 standard population.
2
Insufficient data to compute a stable rate (Total count of events 1-4).