Raising COPD awareness
Main Category: COPDArticle Date: 31 Oct 2004 - 0:00 PST
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Can you name the fourth leading cause of death in adults in America? Chances are you can't, says William Bailey, M.D.,director of the UAB Lung Health Center.
"While it doesn't get much attention, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) has become our nation's fourth leading killer behind heart disease, cancer and stroke. And it's the only one of these four killers whose death rate is expected to increase over the next 20 years."
Bailey is a leader in a new National Institutes of Health campaign to increase awareness of COPD, a disease largely associated with cigarette smoking. November is COPD Awareness Month.
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