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What is expected lifetime of someone who is 71 with mild emphysema?
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∙ 14y ago
The prognosis will depend on the individual's health and lifestyle. Minor emphysema has an FEV1 rate of over 80 percent survival.
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You are 50 and have mild emphysema from smoking-you stopped smoking 6 years agoWill your emphysema get worse or will it stay as it is ie mild breathlessness?
Emphysema is a chronic long-term disease that blocks air way to lungs, meaning it will continue to affect the person by giving them shortness of breath. A treatment to Emphysema is to quit smoking as mentioned above, and then there are medications like Bronchodilators which improve the construction of the airways. So unless they keep smoking, no Emphysema can not worsen and can even be improved.
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