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Causes of emphysema?
The exact causes is still not known but it is believed to be caused by inhalation of polutant. These stuffs cause immune reaction that somehow destroy your alveoli. And/or smoking can cause emphysema, weakening/eating away the thin skin tissue of your lungs.
How many emphysema cases come from smoking?
Heavy cigarette smoking causes about 80-90% of all emphysema cases
What effect does cigarette smoking have on your lungs and oxygen delivery and carbon dioxide?
Smoking causes disease and is a slow way to die. The strain of smoking effects on the body often causes years of suffering. Emphysema is an illness that slowly rots your lungs. People with emphysema often get bronchitis again and again, and suffer lung and heart failure. Emphysema makes it difficult to breath and cannot be cured.
What does emphysema increased by?
Basically smoking, as the most common cause of emphysema is smoking itself.
What does emphysema increase?
Basically smoking, as the most common cause of emphysema is smoking itself.
What emphysema is it communicable?
It is a lung disease that primarily causes shortness of breath. Frequently caused by smoking, it is not communicable.
What does smoking worsen?
smoking worsens emphysema
The Surgeon General warns that smoking causes lung cancer heart disease emphysema and complications with pregnancy?
True
Can emphysema be prevented?
Yes, not smoking can prevent emphysema. However, it can not be cured.
What diseases can you get from smoking cigerattes?
Smoking causes stroke, lung cancer, throat cancer, tumors, oral cancer, emphysema, blindness, heart attack, and other diseases.
What are the cause of emphysema?
Cigarette smoking, on a chronic long-term basis, is the chief cause of emphysema (COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). There are many other causes, including the various pneumoconioses.
What is the major cause of emphysema?
smoking
