Cass County

• 1139 children less than 18 years currently have asthma. [1]

• 3748 adults 18 years and older currently have asthma. [2]

• There are about 45 hospitalizations each year in Cass County. The rate of asthma hospitalization is 9.1 hospital stays per 10,000 people. [3] This rate is significantly lower than the rate for the  State of Michigan (16.0 per 10,000).

• There is less than 1 death due to asthma in Cass County each year. [4]

• For Cass County, estimates of asthma cost are not available. [5]

*Rates are age-adjusted to the 2000 US population. Michigan population estimates for 2003 are used in calculations.

~Insufficient data to compute a stable rate. (Total count of events <=20 or Population <5000).

For more information about asthma in your county, please review "Epidemiology of Asthma In the Southwest Michigan Counties of Berrien, Cass, and VanBuren, 2006."

If you have a specific data request, please contact Betsy Wasilevich, asthma epidemiologist, at wasileviche@michigan.gov.

1.  Michigan Behavioral Risk Factor Survey, 2002.

2.  Michigan Behavioral Risk Factor Survey, 2005, Preliminary.

3.  Michigan Inpatient Database, 2002-2004.

4.  Michigan Resident Death File, 1999-2004.

5.  Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America.

Last Updated 07/01/2007