COPD is an acronym for the disease called Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a lung disease that, unfortunately, at the moment, has no cure.
COPD life expectancy may be a topic that many patients don't care to talk about. Actually, there are several key factors associated with COPD life expectancy.
There are certain foods that people who have copd can eat to lessen their symptoms of the disease. A good website to check out would be www.webmd.com .
What do you mean? I understand COPD is a medical condition. Are suggesting someone or something caused COPD? Would need a lot more information to give you a better answer. Sorry.
There are alot of informations to find copd and thier efectiveness.You can try to look it up the internet or going to a doctor for more help.And try eating healthy.
There is a lot of information in the mayo clinic site, also the united heart association site has information on where to get more information. those are trusted sites,
Emphysema is one type of COPD. There are others.
Coffee can not help people with COPD. The only thing to help with COPD is medicines giving by a doctor.
http://copd.about.com/od/copd/a/copddiet.htm is a very helpful page that discusses COPD and provides detailed infromation on how those with COPD can keep healthy.
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I can only answer this question by personal experience. I was 40 years old when I was told I had COPD. I have researched this and found this is a disease that is found in older people in their 60 and 70. Hope this helped a little.Nicholas Sorrentino:I'm eighteen years old. Last year, at the age of seventeen, I was diagnosed with COPD and had half off my left lung removed due to spontaneous pnuemothoraces. They found the emphysema (COPD) in my right lung during the procedures. If you would also categorize Chronic Bronchitis into the COPD diagnoses, I was born with it. So, seventeen or from birth. I also have no blood relatives with COPD. It isn't genetics at all, but I have smoked for a few years. My suggestion is stay away from cigarettes, or any other inhalant based chemical and take care of your body. COPD can cause a lot of damage to other parts of the human body (ex. liver, kidney, and heart diseases/failures). When I had my first pnuemothorax, my lung was 100% deflated and caused a minor heart attack. If you have any other respiratory questions and what can be caused from them, feel free to ask. Hopefully some of this information will help you and any others who have this or a similar question.
Decreasing sodium intake is one good tip, as well as eating more frequent, but smaller meals with higher calories. For more information, see: http://copd.about.com/od/copd/a/copddiet.htm
Danica's personal charity focus is Drive4COPD, the Chronic Obstruction Pulmonary Disease (COPD). She is the celebrity spokesperson and has spoken in front of Congress as the COPD ambassador. Her grandmother died from this disease. The charity fights against COPD, which is the 4th leading cause of death and affects 24 million people. COPD is the subject of the art creation "24M" by Michael Kalish, named for the 24 million people suffering COPD, and is made from license plates into giant pinwheels, symbolizing air. Click on the link below for more information.