[dtwest]

Anecdotally, I was diagnosed with asthma as a child and walked around with an inhaler for a few years. I liked it, it tasted funny and seemed like a cool gadget at the time. But I did not have asthma. And I'm convinced there's no way my parents would've been diagnosed with it 30 years ago with the minor symptoms I had.

So perhaps the asthma numbers are influenced by an increased willingness to diagnose it. Just a thought.

[icandoit]

The guys say that death by asthma (severe cases certainly) are gently falling, but it looks pretty flat to me.

https://www.cdc.gov/asthma/asthma_stats/asthma_underlying_de...

Do you have any intuition for how to identify an increased willingness to over-diagnose? It may be true, but how do we test this hypothesis?