COPD Awareness Month
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November is National Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Awareness Month. Sponsored by the US COPD
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease , also known as chronic obstructive lung disease , chronic obstructive airway disease , chronic airflow limitation and chronic obstructive respiratory disease , is the co-occurrence of chronic bronchitis and emphysema, a pair of commonly co-existing diseases...

 Coalition, the observance is a time for organizations and communities across the country to increase the overall awareness of COPD. COPD Learn More Breathe Better, the title of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute is a division of the National Institutes of Health, located in Bethesda, Maryland...

’s national awareness and education campaign, has again been adopted as the theme for this year’s National COPD Awareness Month.
we usedb to celebrate 16th November as a "WORLD COPD DAY."

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