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This 3 page paper gives a scholarly overview of the disease, emphysema, with an emphasis on clinical research. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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such, though, this disease does not seem to receive the attention that other diseases, such as AIDS or Cancer, do, and yet, it affects so many. According to the
National Institute of Health, emphysema ranks fifteenth in the United States amount others that contribute to crippling diseases(NHLIB 2003). Men seem to suffer from it more than women, though it
would seem that women are closing the gaps. This is not a race for equality that most women would be proud to see, however. Emphysema, itself, is
a disease of the elastic type fibers inside of the lungs, or of the chemicals present. These bands are what expand and contract to make the lungs pump and process
air. Chemical reactions are the main stimulators for this fiber action and if the fibers are diseased, or if the chemical stimulators are not in the proper amounts, the lungs
lose their ability to function properly. Smoking is responsible, says the NIH, for nearly eighty to ninety percent of the lung disease which is seen in the United
States(NHLIB, 2003). However, certain people can be born without one of those chemical proteins which will also lead to emphysema. But, by and large, emphysema seems to be a
behavioral related disease. The various stages of emphysema include the destruction of the air sacs inside of the lungs. This is particularly serious because these sacs are
responsible for the exchange of oxygen for carbon dioxide. One can clearly see, then, that the destruction of these sacs prohibits the lungs from being able to metabolize oxygen as
efficiently as before. This is why emphysema sufferers experience a shortness of breath. Emphysema is dangerous because it is a subtle disease that seems to creep up on the
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