Italy: share of individuals who suffers/knows someone who suffers from asthma 2017
The statistic shows the share of individuals who suffers/knows someone who suffers from asthma in Italy in 2017. According to the survey, 44 percent of respondents declared to know someone suffering from asthma among relatives, friends or colleagues. Six percent of respondents suffer from it, seven percent have a sick family member, meaning that in total more than half of the Italians have a direct or indirect experience with asthma, a common long term inflammatory disease of the airways of the lungs.