SINUSES CAUSE TROUBLE FOR 33 MILLION AMERICANS EVERY YEAR.(LIFE & LEISURE)

Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) | December 7, 1993 | Copyright

Byline: SANDY ROVNER - Washington Post

The National Center for Health Statistics estimates that 33 millionAmericans suffer from sinus disease every year, making it this country's No. 1 chronic ailment, more common even than arthritis.

Yet sinus problems may be "the most underdiagnosed disorder by physiciansand the most overdiagnosed by patients," according to Michael A. Kaliner, chief of the Washington Hospital Center's Institute for Asthma and Allergy and former chief of the allergic-diseases section of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious ...

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