Bad News and Good News for COPD

Late last year the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) released a report confirming that Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is now the third leading cause of death in the U.S; this, after COPD had previously been projected to reach number three in the year 2020. Often when a projected estimation is achieved twelve years sooner than expected, it’s a sign of...