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    COPD is a chronic lung disease characterized by chronic obstruction of lung airflow that interferes with breathing. It includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Chronic bronchitis involves a long-term cough with mucus production, while emphysema damages the alveolar walls over time. Most COPD patients have a combination of both conditions. Symptoms worsen over time as inflammation and damage to the airways increases, making breathing more difficult due to impaired gas exchange and trapped air in the lungs. A diagnosis of COPD requires non-reversible airflow obstruction, unlike asthma where obstruction is reversible.

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    COPD is a chronic lung disease characterized by chronic obstruction of lung airflow that interferes with breathing. It includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Chronic bronchitis involves a long-term cough with mucus production, while emphysema damages the alveolar walls over time. Most COPD patients have a combination of both conditions. Symptoms worsen over time as inflammation and damage to the airways increases, making breathing more difficult due to impaired gas exchange and trapped air in the lungs. A diagnosis of COPD requires non-reversible airflow obstruction, unlike asthma where obstruction is reversible.

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    COPD is a chronic lung disease characterized by chronic obstruction of lung airflow that interferes with breathing. It includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Chronic bronchitis involves a long-term cough with mucus production, while emphysema damages the alveolar walls over time. Most COPD patients have a combination of both conditions. Symptoms worsen over time as inflammation and damage to the airways increases, making breathing more difficult due to impaired gas exchange and trapped air in the lungs. A diagnosis of COPD requires non-reversible airflow obstruction, unlike asthma where obstruction is reversible.

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    COPD is a chronic lung disease characterized by chronic obstruction of lung airflow that interferes with breathing. It includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Chronic bronchitis involves a long-term cough with mucus production, while emphysema damages the alveolar walls over time. Most COPD patients have a combination of both conditions. Symptoms worsen over time as inflammation and damage to the airways increases, making breathing more difficult due to impaired gas exchange and trapped air in the lungs. A diagnosis of COPD requires non-reversible airflow obstruction, unlike asthma where obstruction is reversible.

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    COPD

    USNIH Definition WHO Definition


    Chronic obstructive pulmo- Healthy COPD
    There are 2 main forms of COPD nary disease (COPD) is a lung
    Chronic bronchitis Emphysema disease characterized by
    chronic obstruction of lung
    Chronic bronchitis Emphysema involves airflow that interferes with
    involves a long-term damage to the alveolar normal breathing and is not
    cough with mucus. walls over time. fully reversible.
    The COPD diagnosis now
    Most people with COPD have a combi- includes the old terminology
    nation of both conditions. ‛chronic bronchitis’ and ‛em-
    physema’. Alveolar membrane
    degraded

    COPD Symptoms Disease Progression


    Symptoms of COPD can be different for The damage to the airways from COPD will worsen over
    each person, but common symptoms are: time from:
    Breathing becomes increasingly
    Increased shortness of breath Chronic inflammation
    difficult
    Frequent coughing (with and without mucus) Increased numbers of goblet cells CO2 and O2 exchange is impaired
    Increased breathlessness Mucus gland hyperplasia Air is trapped in the lungs
    Wheezing Pulmonary fibrosis Exhaling is harder than inhaling
    Narrowing and reduction in num- Airway collapse from alveolar wall
    Tightness in the chest
    ber of small airways destruction

    Asthma and COPD


    A patient has asthma but “Characterized by persistent air-
    their airflow obstruction is NOT COPD flow limitation with several features
    reversible. usually associated with asthma
    and several features usually asso-
    A patient has chronic bron- ciated with COPD. Asthma-COPD
    chitis, emphysema, or both Overlap Syndrome (ACOS) is there-
    but does not have airflow NOT COPD fore identified in clinical practice
    obstruction. by the features that it shares with
    both asthma and COPD.”
    A patient has chronic bron- Consensus statement from the Global
    chitis, emphysema, or both Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung
    IT IS COPD Disease (GOLD) and GINA Science Com-
    with non-reversible airflow mittees
    obstruction.

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