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New National Survey Reveals Striking Lack of Awareness of Deadly Lung Disease; Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), the Fourth Leading Cause of Death in the United States, Now Claims More Women's Lives than Men's.

Publication: PR Newswire
Publication Date: 11-MAY-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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RED BANK, N.J., May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- More than half of Americans (51 percent) have never even heard of a disease that is the fourth leading killer in this country, according to results of a nationwide survey released today by the National Women's Health Resource Center (NWHRC). Prevalence of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), a lung disease generally associated with smoking, and often referred to as "smoker's lung," is rapidly rising -- with women accounting for a major portion of the increase. The disease is expected to become the third leading cause of death in the United States by the year 2020.

Of the more than 1,500 Americans polled in the online survey, 500 were either regular or occasional smokers. Nearly three-fourths...

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