You take deep breaths into a tube that a computer monitors to determine if you have COPD or another condition like asthma. Emphysema causes damage to the lungs’ air sacs, called alveoli.

Asthma seems to be a predisposition that if you are an asthmatic as a child and then smoke cigarettes then you have a fairly significantly higher risk of developing COPD later in life. Narrator ...

Workplace exposures to coal mine dust, cotton dust, silica, and grain dust are known causes of occupational COPD. [11,12,13,14,15] Exposure to isocyanates, natural rubber latex, animal danders ...

You must go to a doctor to know for sure whether you have COPD. That’s because there are things to consider for a diagnosis. Some people have asthma and COPD at the same time. If you have ...

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For context, according to the World Health Organization, COPD is one of the leading causes of death globally. Asthma is also widely prevalent, impacting hundreds of millions of people annually.

Asthma results from a prolonged inflammatory process affecting the airways and, as in other forms of COPD, a variety of mediator driven pathways are involved.

“Asthma commonly begins in childhood and is often associated with allergies, whereas COPD typically presents in the over 50s and is associated with smoking.” What causes it? “The majority of ...