COPD Awareness Month Coming up in November!
As you may know, November is COPD Awareness Month, and November 17th is World COPD Day!
World COPD Day began in 2002, and is organized by the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) in collaboration with health care professionals and COPD patient groups throughout the world.
This year’s theme for World COPD Day is 2010 – The Year of the Lung: Measure your lung health; Ask your doctor about a simple breathing test called spirometry.
A spirometer tests your lung health by having you breathe forcefully into a tube for six seconds or more.
Not sure what you can do to help the worldwide effort in spreading COPD awareness on this day (and all year round)? GOLD offers some suggestions:
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2 comments:
Very nice information you shared here.Thanks for sharing.I think many will come to know about all this things and hope they quit smoking.
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