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2. Find the Best COPD Care Team for You - AOL

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   Pulmonologist. What they do: These doctors are specialists in treating diseases that affect the respiratory system, including COPD. Why you’ll need them: Pulmonologists tend to manage more ...

3. A Guide for Living With COPD - AOL

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   “Women are more likely to have COPD even if they’ve never smoked or only smoked a small amount,” says Amy Attaway, M.D., a pulmonologist at the Cleveland Clinic, in Ohio. Moreover, women who ...

4. Effect of oxygen on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

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   Many people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease have a low partial pressure of oxygen in the blood and high partial pressure of carbon dioxide.Treatment with supplemental oxygen may improve their well-being; alternatively, in some this can lead to the adverse effect of elevating the carbon dioxide content in the blood (hypercapnia) to levels that may become toxic.

5. Obstructive lung disease - Wikipedia

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   Although COPD shares similar characteristics with all other obstructive lung diseases, such as the signs of coughing and wheezing, they are distinct conditions in terms of disease onset, frequency of symptoms, and reversibility of airway obstruction. [1] Cystic fibrosis is also sometimes included in obstructive pulmonary disease. [2]

6. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - Wikipedia

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   Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a type of progressive lung disease characterized by chronic respiratory symptoms and airflow limitation. [8] GOLD 2024 defined COPD as a heterogeneous lung condition characterized by chronic respiratory symptoms (dyspnea or shortness of breath, cough, sputum production and/or exacerbations) due to abnormalities of the airways (bronchitis ...

7. It's Cold & Flu Season: Here's How to Tell if Your Senior ...

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   Why do elderly adults get pneumonia after a fall? Frail, elderly people who take a big fall can bruise their lungs, creating a pulmonary contusion (or lung bruise) that can cause inflammation and ...