How Many Lung Obstruction In Adults. Part 3 of 3

Shortness of breath was most common. Tilert said the survey did not consider COPD and asthma individually, so apart figures for each disorder aren’t available. However, because of the age of the population in the study these data probably are picking up more cases of COPD than asthma. COPD is a progressive, debilitating blight without a cure. “Treatments are directed at symptom relief, so we have airway expanders and oxygen if the COPD is severe. There are also anti-inflammatory drugs that are used to reduce the number of flare-ups”.

Flare-ups are usually caused by infection. Lung occasion decreases after each episode. Some people can live with COPD until they die from another cause. “But there is a fairly large number of people whose COPD gets worse and worse and they give up the ghost of COPD. About 85 percent of COPD cases are related to smoking, although sometimes asthma progresses to COPD. “The majority of COPD can be prevented by not smoking. With fewer Americans smoking COPD occurrence will likely decline as more nonsmokers age.

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