hronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, accounts for over 100,000 deaths per year in the United States alone, making it the fourth leading cause of death. COPD is actually a group of diseases ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is the third leading cause of death in the United States. Pascal Kiszon via Getty Images Smoking is the most common cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...

Women are about 50% more likely than men to develop COPD even though they are less likely to smoke, researchers reported Thursday in the journal BMJ Open Respiratory Research. Photo by Cnordic ...

Air pollution is a major health risk for patients in Fresno, CA, who suffer from chronic lung diseases. Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, Fresno compared the weekly rates ...

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A large-scale study reports that patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)—even if they never smoked—have a 2.6 times greater incidence of developing lung cancer compared with those ...

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, or COPD, is a limitation of how much air a person can inhale and exhale. Smoking has long been considered a major risk factor, but some smokers avoid the problem ...

Multiple studies suggest that the mechanisms of lung damage and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) due to biomass smoke differ from COPD caused by smoking cigarettes. A review examined the ...

—A recent Australian study sought to determine the impact of COPD and smoking on post-operative pulmonary complications following lung cancer resection. Reviewed by Ware Kuschner, MD, Professor of ...

We currently know that COPD, and specifically emphysema, is not just a lung disease found alongside lung cancer; it increases ...

hronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, accounts for over 100,000 deaths per year in the United States alone, making it the fourth leading cause of death. COPD is actually a group of diseases ...