1. Massachusetts – Asthma Rate 12 percent
While Massachusetts does have the highest asthma prevalence rate of 12 percent, which translates to 636,000 adults with asthma, its asthma death rate is not as high, and is 10.2 which translates to being the 17th worst of all states that have asthma death rate statistics. We finish our list of 11 states with the highest asthma rates in the US, with the state that has almost 35 percent bigger asthma rate than the US mean asthma rate.
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