The asthma capitals of England can be revealed today in the interactive map of MailOnline of every neighborhood in the country.
It is thought that one in nine inhabitants (11.3 percent) of Mundesley, a village on the coastline of Norfolk, has the disease – the highest percentage in the entire nation.
Armed with the library figures of the House of Commons, we have deported the estimates of the asthma prevalence for all 34,000 Lower Super Output areas (LSOA) in England.
These small neighborhoods, consisting of between 1,000 and 3,000 people, offer amazingly detailed insights into the country’s bags.
Every LSOA is marked on our map, colored by how many residents are supposed to have asthma.
The darker the red shade, the more patients.
You can zoom in at street level to see exactly in which neighborhood you fall.
A neighboring sector east of Mundesley turned out to have the second highest percentages of asthma patients (11.1 percent).
Completing the top five came the Eastfield zone from Scarborough, part of Driffield in East Riding of Yorkshire (10.9 percent) and another District Scarborough north of Eastfield (10.8 percent).
On the other side of the scale, however, was a part of Westminster that included parts of Kensington Gardens, as well as the quiet residential streets around the Imperial College London head office.
There were estimated that only 52 people (1.3 percent) were diagnosed with asthma, according to the data from the Lower House.
Two other central London neighborhoods complete the lower three, unlike beliefs that asthma hotspots may be in the heavily polluted streets of the capital.
Scientists still do not know for sure what asthma causes, an incurable disease suffered by millions who usually start in childhood.
Research has repeatedly pointed out pollution as a possible cause, but the jury is still out. Doctors think that it could be in families and be obesity, with studies that show that it is more likely in people with hay fever and eczema.
What is known, however, is that air pollution can activate trays or ‘attacks’ that can prove to be fatal.
Asthma + Lung UK, found around two -thirds of the patients is poor air quality that makes their asthma worse.
The NHS advisory web page states: ‘Symptoms happen when your airways are swollen. This makes them narrower and causes breathing problems. ‘
Pollution can irritate the airways, as well as pollen, stress, physical activity, cigarette.
The most up -to -date figures from the House of Commons Library use the 2011 LSOA limits that were updated in 2021.
The data is also only responsible in England.
The Ministry of Health and Social Care (DHSC) estimates that 3.9 million people older than six years had asthma in 2023/24.
That was equal to about 6.5 percent of the population, or one in 15 people.
The data analyzed by MailOnline suggests a correlation between higher deprivation levels and asthma.
Professor Anna Hansell, director of the Center for Environmental Health and Sustainability of the University of Leicester, said that the link is ‘not surprising’.
“It is probably due to several disadvantage, starting in childhood or in the womb and acting during the life of an individual,” she said.
‘Deaforced areas have poorer homes that are more susceptible to damp and cold, there are higher percentages of smoking and exposure to second -hand smoke and there is higher exposure to air pollution outdoors and poorer air quality inside’.
In terms of why higher asthma rates in the countryside seemed to be, experts said that the air in the countryside can be equally toxic.
Agricultural material, such as grain dust and poultry, are the most common causes of asthma in farmers, according to the Health and Safety Executive Body.
Jonathan Blades, head of policy and external matters at asthma + Lung UK, said: ‘People often assume that air in the countryside is clean, but in reality some rural areas have caused considerable levels of air pollution caused by agricultural practices.
‘Ammonia emissions, of the use of cattle and the use of fertilizer, can combine with other pollutants to form harmful fine particles (PM2.5), which is known to damage lung health and worsening of the airways such as asthma.
‘Although more research is needed to understand whether there is a direct link between the removal of agricultural fertilizers and asthma, the government must urgently introduce stricter national goals to reduce air pollution in all communities and to ensure that everyone can breathe clean air, regardless of where they live.
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