COPD and Overweight, as a Problem in Present-Day Pulmonology
Author(s) -
Nadiia Korzh,
Kseniia Ostrovska
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
galician medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2414-1518
DOI - 10.21802/gmj.2018.1.9
Subject(s) - medicine , overweight , pulmonology , copd , incidence (geometry) , population , respiratory tract , pulmonary disease , disease , intensive care medicine , obesity , respiratory system , environmental health , physics , optics
Increasing incidence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (4th place among all causes of death within the general population) and overweight, as one factor for progression of respiratory tract pathologies (more than 30% of world population suffers from overweight) suggest that further study of pathogenetic peculiarities of their combined course and search for new ways of differential pathogenetic therapy are important nowadays.
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