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-3.4% prevalence in general public

-Men>> women for cases of chronic bronchitis

-smokers have the highest for chronic bron. with 59% of 8.6 million having bron.

-This disease is the most prevalent with smoking individals

-Those that never have smoked still have a prevalence of developing chronic bronchitis. 4-22%

Death Epi with chronic bron

-Number of adults DX within the last yr 9.3 million

-Percent in the last year 3.8%

-Bronchitis deaths in 2014 per 100,000 population: 0.2.

-those most likely to develop chronic bronchitis are individuals over the age of 45 and smoke, live in areas with high air pollution and those suffering from asthma.

-Polish males have the highest death rate out of nine different countries with 90 deaths per 100,000. The lowest death rate was in France with the males higher than females with 18 deaths per 100,000. Males have a higher death rate from chronic bronchitis than females. These statistics are with adults aged 55 to 65 in 1983.