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This Is Your Lungs on COPD
Here’s exactly how this chronic disease impacts your lungs, plus how doctors determine the severity to provide the best treatment possible.
What Does It Mean To Have Decreased Lung Capacity?
Lung capacity can be drastically decreased by respiratory conditions like COPD and asthma. Learn more about the complications of having a reduced lung volume.
Non-smoking Asthmatics Have Emphysema Risk
Severe asthma can cause emphysema in people even if they have never smoked. Learn how these conditions affect the lungs, airways, and ultimately, the ability to breath.
What You Eat Can Impact Your COPD
Load up on these specific foods to support healthy lung function and ultimately optimize your pulmonary rehabilitation.
Keep COPD Triggers Out of the Bedroom
Remove these common COPD triggers from your bedroom to help you breath and sleep better.
How Sen. Rand Paul’s Chest Trauma is Affecting His Lungs
How a simple blow to the chest can result in a serious diagnosis.
Lung Transplant and COPD: What to Know
A complex and expensive procedure, a lung transplant can prolong survival and improve quality of life for those with end-stage lung diseases.
Chronic Depression in COPD Patients Harms Health
Left untreated, depression can adversely affect overall health and effectiveness of COPD therapy.
6 Things to Do to Prevent COPD Exacerbations
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease flares can take a significant toll on patients. But a growing body of research suggests that some can be prevented.
COPD May Raise Cardiac Death Risk
People who have COPD for a longer time and experience frequent flare-ups are at greatest risk.