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...Frederiksburg Hospital, Dr Phanareth and his PHD student Anders Kjaer are running the first randomized study ever made to show that patients with exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) - the group responsible for 10% of all hospital admissions in the country - can be treated at home using telemedicine technology. In a bare office in the hospital, Dr Phanareth monitors patients via a pulse oximeter device and a spirometer device (for lung function) that are blue-tooth enabled and linked through a secure web connection to the hospital. Using videoconference technology, he can guide the patients on whether to administer...
Between 2003 and 2033, the researchers estimate, 83 million Chinese will die from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer, which would constitute nearly a quarter of the nation’s deaths during this period...
...study—which modeled the effects of varying amounts of smoking and solid-fuel use on COPD, lung cancer, and tuberculosis—predicted that 65 million people would die from COPD and 18 million from lung disease in this period. Eighty-two percent of COPD deaths and 75 percent of lung cancer deaths in the model can be attributed to the combined effects of smoking and pollution...
...study, published in the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet, found that complete gradual cessation of these risk factors by 2033 could save 26 million lives from COPD and over 6 million from lung cancer...
...million COPD and lung cancer deaths attributed to smoking and solid-fuel use, over 10 million would be unavoidable even if the risk factors had been eliminated in 2003, due to persisting effects of past exposure...