Many Long-Term Smokers have Chronic Lung Disease, But Don’t Know They Have It
April 7th, 2010 by Nina Thompson, ARNP
Long-term smokers are at high risk of developing a chronic lung condition called COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), but many are not even aware they have it during the early stages. In a recent Canadian study of long-term smokers, about one in five were found to have COPD, but only a third of them knew they [...]
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