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Chronic obstructive disease

COPD is a name proposed by two American doctors, M.H. Williams and N.S. Seriff, to describe a disease entity combining chronic bronchitis and pulmonary emphysema, manifested in patients as an obstructive ventilatory disorder with a main symptom of chronic dyspnea. Since the 1970s, COPD has been considered a smokers' disease brought on chiefly by the chronic stimulation of tobacco smoke. In 2001, the GOLD guideline indicated that COPD should not refer to a disease combining chronic bronchitis and pulmonary emphysema, but rather to a disease state characterized by an airflow limitation that is not fully reversible. Nonetheless, problems still remain in defining this disease entity.

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