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This 4 page paper discusses some of the causes, symptoms/diagnoses and treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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will tend to repeat. A paper on a known illness is not like a poem open to interpretation; most of the sources will say the same things. In order to
avoid copying hundreds of web pages, well take causes from two sites; symptoms from two more and treatment options from still two more. The first information comes from the National
Institute of Environmental Health Services web site; its a memo from John Walsh, President & CEO of the COPD Foundation to NIEHS director William J. Martin, dated 2007. The memo
gives an overview of the significance of COPD worldwide. There are a number of diseases that come under the general heading "chronic obstructive pulmonary disease" including such conditions as emphysema
and chronic bronchitis (COPD (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, 2008). Walsh considers these types of diseases a "large and growing health threat both within the United States and globally" (2007). With
regard to COPD specifically, Walsh notes that it is the "4th leading cause of death" in the U.S. at the present time, and unless "appropriate interventions" are put in place,
it will be the 3rd leading cause of death by 2020 (Walsh, 2007). Estimates are that in the U.S. one person dies from COPD every four minutes (Walsh, 2007). The
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute estimates that there are currently 12 million people in the U.S. with COPD, and another 24 million who are "undiagnosed or developing the disease"
(Walsh, 2007). Over 600 million people worldwide suffer from COPD (Walsh, 2007). Causes: The single most common cause of COPD is cigarette smoking (What is COPD?, 2007). Most victims of
the disease are former smokers or people who are still smoking (What is COPD?, 2007). COPD is also found in people who breathe in "other kinds of lung irritants, like
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