Article: Your Health:The `secret' disease that kills 27,000 people a year.(Features)

Article: COPD is a common lung disease that requires the correct ...
CME: Your SA Journal of CPD;  April 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common lung disorder associated ... the affected individual. Not only does COPD affect the individual, but it also poses ... health care system. The prevalence of COPD in South Africa is not known, but a large ...

Article: COPD: advances in treatment & survival: this ...
Health News;  February 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is long overdue. The disease, which ... heart disease and cancer are declining, COPD is on the rise. But patients and physicians alike appear unaware of the gravity of COPD and its consequences. As a result, it ...

Article: World COPD Day 2008 Features New Initiatives That Drive ...
PR Newswire;  November 17, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... ROME, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- World COPD Day 2008 features new patient and health ... chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). These misconceptions -- revealed in a global survey, the International COPD Coalition (ICC) Report -- include poor ...

Article: COPD is increasing in younger, female patients.(Pulmonary ...
Internal Medicine News;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... leading cause of death in the United States, COPD is the only leading cause of death that ... Already, women have surpassed men in COPD mortality, said Dr. Hardin, a pul ... than men are also being diagnosed with COPD, "so something else is going on with ...

Article: COPD -- the silent killer.
M2 Presswire;  January 30, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... PRESSWIRE-30 January 2006-DATAMONITOR: COPD -- the silent killer(C)1994-2006 ... chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Caused mainly by smoking and characterized by declining lung function, COPD is a silent killer', in that up to ...

Article: COPD AFFLICTS MORE ADULTS OVER 40 THAN PREVIOUSLY ...
AsiaPulse News;  November 17, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... s adults over the age of 40 may have COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ... figures to be released on November 17, World COPD Day, by the Global Initiative for Chronic ... researchers studying the prevalence of COPD. PLATINO, the group's Latin American ...

Article: COPD affects millions and costs billions.
United Press International;  November 14, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... each year, researchers said Thursday. COPD, as it is known, costs billions in healthcare ... by physicians. About 85 percent of all COPD cases can be attributed to cigarette smoking ... Lung Health Education Program with the COPD Coalition, told United Press International ...