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12B | THEPRESS.NET HEALTH & BEAUTY MAY 9, 2008
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Taking the wheeze
out of lung disease
by Ray Carter
Correspondent
I have Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary
Disease (COPD), but I’m not alone.
Over 12 million Americans have been
diagnosed with COPD and probably
another 12 million don’t yet realize they
have it.
What is COPD? It’s often a combination
of lung problems such as emphysema,
chronic bronchitis and asthma.
It cannot be cured and, while medical
science has succeeded in lowering the
death rate from most other dread diseases,
COPD mortality increased by an
astounding 163 percent between 1965
and 1998. The disease is now the fourth
leading cause of death, ranks second
in cause of disability and accounts for 2
million annual hospitalizations.
Five out of six people with COPD
got it due to years of smoking and, as
see Lung page 13B