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Source: Author’s computation, 2021. Fig. 6: Trend chart of the number of treated and reported cases of Asthma in the study area Generally, the plotted graph depicts a consistence increase of asthmatic treated and reported cases throughout the period up to the last year. This could probably be attributed to an increased relative humidity in the area (fig. 3) and the high temperature (fig .1 & 2) as well. Hence, relative humidity and temperature has a vast impact on Asthmatic condition (Cooney C.M, 2011). While, other factors that could be responsible to this increasing cases of asthma in the area could be; lack of efficient awareness of the disease to the people to reduce its effect or increasing cases shown on the graph, (fig..3) e) Evidence of Climatic Sensitive Diseases in Keffi Local Government Area of Nasarawa State Source: Author field survey y = 0.536x - 1066. R² = 0.891 y = 1.2221x - 2432.5 R² = 0.9369 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Number of asthmatic cases (patients) treated/reported Year(s) Treated Cases Reported Cases Linear (Treated Cases) Linear (Reported Cases) Relationship between Climatic Variables and Incidence of Malaria and Asthma in Keffi Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, Nigeria © 2021 Global Journals 1 Global Journal of Science Frontier Research Volume XXI Issue VI Year 2021 62 ( H ) Version I Plate 2: Asthmatic patient receiving treatment at the Federal Medical Centre Keffi, Nasarawa State