Asthma and COPD are both a serious health problems. People want more information about their illness but are intimidated by medical jargon. To smoke or not to smoke? Is NOT the question. The question is when to quit before surgery? This seemingly simple question has a surprisingly difficult answer. In an interesting article that came out in Journal of.

Our goal is to increase national public awareness of COPD and to upgrade the information, services and support currently available to patients and their families. Do people not seem .

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The term COPD encompasses chronic obstructive bronchitis, with obstruction of small airways, and emphysema, with enlargement of air spaces and destruction of lung parenchyma, loss of lung elasticity, and closure of small airways. Monday, June 14, 2010.