According to statistics, the incidence of asthma among Chinese exceeds five percent. More than a million people in Taiwan suffer from asthma. Among them, three times as many children as adults have asthma.
據統計，國人的氣喘發生率超過百分之五，全台灣的氣喘病患超過一百萬人，其中小兒氣喘是成人的三倍，僅排在過敏性鼻炎之後，是次常見的小兒慢性病。