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What is c. o. p. d. disease? how is it treated?
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Emphysema/ch Bronchi: Chronic bonchitis and emphysema pair of diseases in which airways narrow over time, to limit air going in and out of the lungs, causing shortness of breath caused mostly by tobacco smoking, occupational exposure work place dust.Coal mines, gold mining, cotton and noxius fumes&air polution, may be genetic susceptibility and alpha1 antitrpsin deficiency treated with, bronchodilaters/antichlinegic/steroi.
Answered 9/29/2016
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