Is COPD on the rise?
Yes. That is what is so troubling.
The most common symptoms of chronic obstructive lung disease are cough, mucus production, wheezing, and shortness of breath. And there may be any combination of those symptoms in any individual at a given time and one certainly has to recognize that the lung, like any other part of your body, has a limited number of symptoms that it can have. So all lung diseases share cough and wheezing and shortness of breath and mucus and chest pain and blood spitting and just a handful of others. It becomes important for an individual when they recognize any of these symptoms to seek attention, but anything related to your breathing mechanism, in its broadest sense, should be investigated earlier rather than later.
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Yes. That is what is so troubling.
We now in fact think of chronic obstructive lung disease as what we call a systemic disorder meaning that it has effect on and interactions with other parts of the body.
Not too long ago the statement was made that if a patient had chronic obstructive lung disease that it was related to cigarette smoking, period. And only with very rare incidence was it related to anything else.
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The formal diagnosis of COPD is made with breathing testing or what we call “pulmonary function testing”.
We started off with our definition of chronic obstructive lung disease, or COPD, by including the notion that it is a not reversible limitation of the flow of air.