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Who are more frequently to develop chronic bronchitis lung cancer heart disease and emphysema than Who?
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its smokers and non smokers
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Over time smokers can develop what four major problems?
Over time, smokers can develop chronic bronchitis, emphysema, lung cancer, and atherosclerosis.
What 2 major illnesses that result from smoking?
Cigarette smoking can increase your risk to develop lung cancer and detrimental illnesses such as emphysema. Long term smoking can also lead to chronic bronchitis. After the first time you have bronchitis, you normally retain a rough cough commonly referred to as a "smoker's cough".
What happens if you smoke chronic?
You can develop lung caner and or emphysema, both which are deadly diseases.
What diseases are known to be cause by smoking?
Cancer, Chronic obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD, such as Emphysema, chronic Bronchitis), acute bronchitis, and you may be more vulnerable against different types of airborn bacteria and or viruses. However, the same conditions and diseases may develop in NON-smokers with chronic exposure to lung irritants. For example, truck drivers exposed to diesel fumes, construction materials, coal furnaces, etc.
Cause of bronchitis?
Smoking cigarettes (and exposure to second-hand cigarette smoke) is the main cause of chronic bronchitis. Followed by environmental pollution, some kinds of occupational exposures to chemicals, and various air pollutants (such as sulphur dioxide). The severity of the disease often relates to how much the person was exposed to cigarette smoke/environmental pollution.It is still possible for people to get bronchitis without any of the risk factors mentioned above.Acute bronchitis generally follows a viral respiratory infection. At first, it affects your nose, sinuses, and throat and then spreads to the lungs. Sometimes, you may get another (secondary) bacterial infection in the airways.This means that bacteria infect the airways, in addition to the virus.People at risk for acute bronchitis include:Elderly, infants, and young childrenPeople with heart or lung diseaseSmokersChronic bronchitis is a long-term condition. It's also known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD for short. (Emphysema is another type of COPD.) As the condition gets worse, you become increasingly short of breath, have difficulty walking or exerting yourself physically, and may need supplemental oxygen on a regular basis.The following things can make bronchitis worse:Air pollutionAllergiesCertain occupations (such as coal mining, textile manufacturing, or grain handling)Infections
Is emphysema linked to gender?
Men are more likely than women to develop emphysema, but female cases are increasing as the number of female smokers rises
Can you have bronchitis and a cold at the same time?
Yes, you can! Bronchitis can also occur after the flu has passed or is passing, as your alveoli may not be able to get rid of all the germs from the flu and then it may develop into a bacterial infection... bronchitis. You could also contract the diseases separately!
Chronic diseases develop slowly?
Yes, they develop over time and not abruptly.
Does bronchitis spread?
It depends on the nature of bronchitis. There are two main types of bronchitis: acute and chronic bronchitis. Acute bronchitis is caused by viral infection and normally last for a short period of time.This form of bronchitis can spread very rapidly through cough, sneeze or by getting in close contact with infected person. On the other hand, chronic bronchitis doesn't spread by nature. The main cause is smoking and exposure to pollutants. It can only spread from one person to another if it persists for a very long time. This often occurs when the bacteria starts to develop and is emitted into the air.
What is the effect in health of smoking?
Smoking is known to cause chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), Emphysema, lung cancer, hardening of the arteries, esophageal cancer and esophageal varices (rupture of veins in the throat), among other diseases. Not all smokers develop all of these diseases, but the chances of a chronic smoker dying of one or more of them are better than 50%.
In early stages _____ has no symptoms and develop with the time?
Chronic glomerulonephritis
What are the Effects on the human respiratory system from emphysema?
Emphysema is one of several types of obstructive lung diseases. The other common type of chronic obstructive lung disease is known as chronic bronchitis. To understand this disease, you must first understand a little basic physiology of breathing. Inspiration, or taking a breath in, is an active process, meaning that it is initiated and controlled by you contracting your muscles, in this case the diaphragm. When you take a breath, the diaphragm contracts and causes your lungs to expand. Expiration is a passive process, meaning that there are no muscle contractions involved, generally speaking. The way this works is that your lungs are elastic in nature, meaning that once they expand they naturally want to return to their original state of rest similar to a rubberband. Smoking or other respiratory insults cause damage to the lungs and reduce the amount of elasticity of your lungs so that they do not return to their normal resting position after taking a breath in. Chronic inflammation also narrows the air passages (known as bronchi) making it even more difficult for air to leave the lungs. In layman's terms, it make it harder to exhale. Without exhaling, your body will build up carbon dioxide and disrupt the normal balance of gases in your blood stream. Also, with decreased air movement through the lungs and increased amounts of mucus from damage to the tissue, people with emphysema will be much more prone to pneumonia and other respiratory infections. People with damage to their lung tissue are also more likely to develop pneumothorax (collapsed lung). Emphysema/Chronic Bronchitis cannot be cured but worsening of the condition can be greatly slowed by stopping whatever is causing the damage to the lung, most of the time being smoking.
