Hong Kong Respiratory Medicine

Marc Decramer, on behalf of the European Respiratory Roadmap Initiative. The Lancet, Early Online Publication, 23 June 2011. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736 (11) 60619-3
Chronic respiratory diseases will pose a formidable challenge for health-care systems throughout the coming decades, because they are highly prevalent.

WHO estimates that about 300 million people worldwide have asthma, and more than 200 million people have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) whereas mortality from cardiac diseases, stroke, and cancer has decreased in the past three decades, the number of deaths from COPD has doubled in the same period, which places a tremendous burden ...

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