COPD: Symptoms, stages, therapy
Brief overview Symptoms: Shortness of breath, cough, sputum Stages: physicians distinguish four degrees of severity (gold 1-4) with increasing symptom burden to permanent shortness of breath at rest. Causes and risk factors: Mainly smoking (chronic smoker’s cough), also air pollution and certain lung diseases Diagnosis: Pulmonary function test, blood gas analysis, X-ray examination of the … COPD: Symptoms, stages, therapy
