ASTHMA REPORT
July 1st, 2004
BY MONICA DOBIEASTHMA sufferers are 12 times as likely to develop chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as those who do not have the common lung breathing complaint, according to a new American study. It suggests that asthma and COPD share a "common background" that could lay the groundwork for the far more serious condition. Author Graciela Silva, of the Respiratory Centre, at the USA's University of Arizona, in Tucson, published the findings in the medical journal Chest; they are the result of her 20 year study of 3,099 people. At the outset, ...
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