Christine Jenkins
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first heard Sep 2016
last heard 24 Apr
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Health Report · Is brain training worth it? And a liquid biopsy for blood cancer · 20 Mar 2017
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Yes, it's not a term people are familiar with, but they probably are familiar with the words chronic bronchitis and emphysema and they are really the community's understanding of this disease.
It's a chronic lung disease where the airways narrow because the lung tissue is destroyed by
Gases, dusts, particles, noxious inhalations of which tobacco smoke is the most common in our country, but not in the rest of the world.
Most definitely.
Biomass fuel exposure we call it.
People who have to burn carbon rich fuel for um their heating and cooking in poorly ventilated houses around the world.
uh very commonly develop COPD as well.
So this accounts for why women globally actually have the same prevalence of COPD as men, whilst in our country
Actually C O P D is slightly more common in men, but because women now smoke as much as men do, uh, it's it's becoming equal in prevalence.
About seven to eight percent of people have significant COPD, clinically important COPD.
If you look at it over the age range, it increases in prevalence from the age of about fifty five through to
eighty plus and by the time
People are in their eighties, COPD prevalence may be up around fifteen percent.
But that's a
It's a large number of people.
And in fact, there's an epidemic of COPD around the world.
So around three hundred million people around the world have COPD.
In uh 1990 it was the sixth leading cause of death from
Uh chronic disease in two thousand it was the fourth and in twenty twenty it will be the third.
So And what's different about it in women?
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