People living in parts of Merseyside are among the most likely in the country to die from lung conditions, new research has found.
The Asthma and Lung UK charity has looked at deaths and hospital admissions for people suffering conditions such as asthma, pneumonia and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a condition mostly caused by smoking.
Of all 549,349 deaths in England in 2020/21, around 9% were due to respiratory causes, of which most were down to pneumonia and COPD. Around 3% of all hospital admissions each year are due to respiratory conditions.
