Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a lung condition that often hides in plain sight. You may think you’re dealing with a common cold, when in reality, your lungs are swollen, irritated ...

Recent medical research is reshaping our understanding of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), particularly highlighting its disproportionate impact on women. This shift in the COPD landscape ...

Credit: Getty Images Women with COPD, asthma, and OSA may go undiagnosed or without proper care because their symptomatology differs from the classic male presentation. Despite decades of advances in ...

LUNG CONDITIONS LIKE ASTHMA AND COPD ARE MORE COMMON IN WOMEN THAN MEN. BUT WHY? WELL, DOCTOR ALBERT POLITO FROM MERCY MEDICAL CENTER JOINS US WITH MORE INFORMATION. GOOD MORNING. IT SEEMS LIKE WE ...

Springfield, IL (June 5, 2013) — Women are 37 percent more likely to have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) than men and now account for more than half of all deaths attributed to COPD in ...

Miami (November 11, 2025) – Men and women with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), bronchiectasis, and nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) lung disease report differences in symptoms, mental ...

COPD symptoms vary depending on the amount of lung damage that has occurred due to inhaled substances, most commonly smoking. Symptoms are usually slow to develop and often don’t appear until there’s ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Women with COPD reported that it was difficult to access medications and resources. This patient population did ...

Dr. Neil Ettinger is a pulmonologist at St. Luke's Hospital. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is one of the most common lung diseases and is the third leading cause of death in the United States.

May 9 (UPI) --Smoking can't explain why women are more at risk for COPD, a new study says. Women are about 50% more likely than men to develop COPD even though they are less likely to smoke, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Between 2000 and 2005, the number of annual deaths in the United States due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) rose by 8 percent, an increase driven primarily ...

MERCY MEDICAL CENTER. 57 YEAR OLD STEPHANIE HARRIS HAS BOTH ASTHMA AND CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE, OR COPD. I STARTED SMOKING AROUND THE AGE OF 14 OR. 15. AND I COMPLETELY STOPPED MAYBE ...