Non-smokers have fewer symptoms, milder COPD
By HME News Staff
Updated Tue September 17, 2013
COPENHAGEN - People who have never smoked can develop COPD, but they experience fewer symptoms, less inflammation and a milder form of the disease than do former and current smokers with the condition, according to a recent study. Researchers from Copenhagen University Hospital discovered COPD displays different characteristics in non-smokers, producing less severe outcomes. Patients who had never smoked were hospitalized fewer times and had decreased risk of associated cardiovascular disease, but they still suffered substantial morbidity because of lung-related hospital admissions, according to the study, which was published recently in The Lancet: Respiratory Medicine.
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