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Pages in category "Deaths from emphysema" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 406 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In 2016 in the United States there were 6,977 deaths from emphysema – 2.2 per 100,000 people. [13] Globally it accounts for 5% of all deaths. [14] A 2018 review of work on the effects of tobacco and cannabis smoking found that a possibly cumulative toxic effect could be a risk factor for developing emphysema, and spontaneous pneumothorax. [15 ...
Deaths from emphysema (404 P) Pages in category "Deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease" The following 88 pages are in this category, out of 88 total.
During the week ending Feb. 1, 8% of emergency department visits were due to flu compared with 3.2% the same time last year, according to the CDC data. Doctors' visits for flu highest in 15 years ...
Human infectious diseases may be characterized by their case fatality rate (CFR), the proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die from it (cf. mortality rate).It should not be confused with the infection fatality rate (IFR), the estimated proportion of people infected by a disease-causing agent, including asymptomatic and undiagnosed infections, who die from the disease.
Overall, air pollution causes the deaths of around ca. 7 million people worldwide each year, and is the world's largest single environmental health risk, according to the WHO (2012) and the IEA (2016). [33] [34] [35]
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 or exacerbations) due to abnormalities of the airways (bronchitis ...
Timothy Jerrell Cunningham (December 21, 1982 – 2018) [1] was a Harvard-educated doctor with the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention. [2] As an epidemiologist, he was a team leader in the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and was named in 2017 as part of the Atlanta Business Chronicle's 40 Under 40 list. [3]