Bronchial asthma targets about 10 percent of children and about five to 10 percent of adults in Pakistan, said Prof. Dr Muhammad Iqbal Choudhry of the International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences, Karachi university, during a lecture on Wednesday. He said that the Global Initiative for Asthma shows that more than 150 million people in the world suffer from this syndrome and it is equally prevalent in school-going children. Last year, the death toll of asthma patients reached 260,000. Unfortunately only limited data is available for children aged three to 16 in Pakistan at the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood but the Dr Panjwani Centre for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research is focusing on the disease. app