Respiratory illness costs the UK £11 billion each year, of which £10 billion is spent within the National Health Service; these were the staggering figures from a report published earlier this year by The British Lung Foundation (BLF), based on an analysis of data from 2014. These total costs represent 0·6% of the UK gross domestic product and yet in the same year, a paltry amount (<2% of the total health budget) was spent on respiratory related research. On Oct 19, 2017, the BLF and the British Thoracic Society released another report summarising the findings of a systematic review on the economic burden and costs of lung disease.

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肺部健康：代价高昂的遗漏

每年，呼吸道疾病花费英国110亿英镑，其中100亿英镑花费在国家卫生局内部；这些是英国肺病基金会（BLF）今年早些时候发布的报告中惊人的数字，该报告基于2014年的数据分析。这些总成本占英国国内生产总值的0·6％，但仍在同一年，微不足道的费用（不到卫生总预算的2％）用于呼吸相关的研究。2017年10月19日，BLF和英国胸科协会发布了另一份报告，总结了对肺病的经济负担和成本进行系统评估的结果。