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Top CHRONIC Childhood ILLNESSES RANKED By COUNTRY
United States
Asthma (9 million children suffer from asthma)
Diabetes (200,000 children live with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes |13,000 children are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes annually)
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Mood disorders (depression and bipolar disorder)
Allergies and chronic respiratory diseases - other than asthma (It is reported that up to 8% of American children younger than 18 years receive diagnoses of food allergies.)
Anxiety disorders
Cerebral palsy
Vision problems and blindness
Migraine
Sickle Cell Disease (72,000 live with sickle cell disease)
Hay fever or respiratory allergy
Chronic diseases of the esophagus
Cystic Fibrosis
Chronic Kidney Disease
Chronic Liver Disease
Congenital Heart Disease
Cancer
Epilepsy
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
AIDS (UNICEF’s efforts to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV have made significant progress)
Diabetes (Approximately 400,000 people are currently living with type 1 diabetes in the UK, with over 29,000 of them children)
Asthma (5.4 million people in the UK are currently receiving treatment for asthma: 1.1 million children (1 in 11) )
Arthritis (8- 10 million people in the UK suffer from arthritis including 15,000 children)
Epilepsy (Number of emergency hospital admissions for epilepsy for children and young people under 19 years of age)
Allergies (In the UK, it is estimated that 5-8% of children have a food allergy)
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Obesity (WHO Europe said the food industry increasingly uses cheap new marketing channels such as social media and smart phone apps to target children)
Emphysema (In 2012, there were 2,435 deaths in children aged 0−14 years. Of these, only 262 were due to lung diseases and 102 to cardiovascular disease)
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (It’s thought that around 2% to 5% of school-aged children may have ADHD)
Coronary Heart Disease (Children may also require a heart transplant to treat congenital heart diseases.)
Stroke (There are over 400 childhood strokes a year in the UK)
Chronic Bronchitis
Cerebral Palsy (There are an estimated 30,000 children with cerebral palsy in the UK)
AIDS (In 2015, 23 children were newly diagnosed with HIV – down from 131 in 2005.)
Cancer (Childhood cancer is rare – around 1,600 new cases are diagnosed every year in the UK -in children aged 0 to 14 year.)
Congenital Heart Disease (One of the most common types of birth defect, affecting up to 9 in every 1,000 babies born in the UK)