1. Volume 135, Issue 4, Pages 1045-1049 (April 2009)
International Trends in Asthma Mortality Rates in the 5- to 34-Year Age Group 
Meme Wijesinghe, BSc, MBBS, Mark Weatherall, MApplStats, Kyle Perrin, MBChB, Julian Crane, MBBS, Richard Beasley, DSc 
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2. Figure 1
Asthma mortality rates (deaths per 100,000 persons 5 to 34 years of age) in 20 countries since 1960 (gray circles and interpolation) and the smoothed fit with 90% confidence intervals (black lines). The countries included are Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, England and Wales, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Republic of Ireland, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. The ICD codes introduced during this period were ICD, 8th revision, in 1968, ICD, 9th revision, in 1979, and ICD, 10th revision, in 1999.
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