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A recent report put out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), says that since 1999, the prevalence for deaths caused by COPD, along with hospitalizations and age-adjusted prevalence. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease has been at the #4 leading cause of death. There are an estimated 16 million people who have COPD, but it is suspected that 22 million actually have it and some haven’t been diagnosed.

This is the reason why COPD is so dangerous – because many people go for years with the subtle first warning signs of the disease without any real reason to suspect that they have it. Most people with COPD won’t suspect that anything is wrong until they start to experience the more obvious symptoms, and this is why many people have severe COPD when they are finally diagnosed.

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One long-term study conducted in Sweden showed a 3.8% drop in the risk of death for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) patients, who took part in oxygen therapy over the course of 18 years. Even though this is still a small percentage, one has to consider how many people were included in this study. 7,628 adults between the ages of 66 to 73 were monitored and 5,497 died after they had stopped with the oxygen therapy. The study started in January 1987 and concluded in December of 2004.

The people who took part in the study died from various disease, some of which did not relate to COPD. While 76% of those who died, died from respiratory illness, 16% died from a circulatory disease, 7.6% from cancer and 1.1% from digestive organ disease.

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