Respiratory Medicine

Increasing diagnoses of COPD underscore need for education

Published in Women's Health Weekly, November 24th, 2005

Sharon O'Hara, 66, realized she had reached a low point when she had to crawl on the kitchen floor to feed her dogs. O'Hara, a former smoker, had ignored her diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) for 2 years and now found herself unable to stand, with no choice but to turn her life around.

The American Lung Association estimates 10.7 million adults in the United States have been diagnosed with COPD and an estimated 120,000 people will die as a result this year - making COPD America's fourth leading cause of death.

According to a recent report in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the death rate from COPD has...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-11-24)

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