How to Use COPD in a Sentence

COPD

abbreviation or noun
  • Emphysema is among the group of lung diseases known as COPD, for which smoking is the primary cause.
    — Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Too much weight loss can interfere with quality of life and exacerbate symptoms of COPD.
    — Health Editorial Team, Health, 27 July 2023
  • Topping the list of chronic diseases are heart disease, cancer, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and diabetes.
    — Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 7 Feb. 2025
  • This will disproportionately hurt people with asthma and COPD, or other lung diseases.
    — Judy Stone, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Dryness can lead to issues like nosebleeds, persistent coughs, and discomfort, especially for people with lung diseases like asthma and COPD.
    — TIME, 24 Jan. 2024
  • While healthy people can have reactions to particulate matter, those with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, are most sensitive to it.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Next, he was diagnosed with a serious lung illness (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD), diabetes, and then kidney failure, all in 2010.
    — Kat McGowan, NPR, 29 May 2024
  • In general, women and people with certain underlying conditions, like diabetes or COPD, were hit by fatigue the hardest.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 20 Feb. 2024
  • People who have heart or lung diseases like asthma or COPD, the elderly, children and pregnant people should all avoid ash cleanup work because particle pollution is particularly hard on their systems.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 13 Jan. 2025
  • There's no cure for COPD, but certain medications and lifestyle changes can help alleviate uncontrollable coughing.
    — Amanda MacMillan, Health, 3 May 2024
  • Obst had previously been open about suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD.
    — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2024
  • This in the long term may play a role in developing chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD), such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis, and other heart conditions like myocardial infarction, or heart attack.
    — Alyssa Hui, Health, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Additionally, the study recommends that people with respiratory conditions like asthma or COPD, who are more susceptible to adverse effects of smoke, consult with a health care provider to prepare for wildfire conditions.
    — Maya Davis, CNN, 29 July 2024
  • Most of the patients in the emergency department have severe symptoms, asthma, COPD, underlying lung problems or have compromised cardiovascular systems.
    — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 8 June 2023
  • The company has since evolved the program to include conditions such as cardiac, COPD, pneumonia, asthma, various infections and other medical and post-operative conditions.
    — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Going from a high temperature outside to a cold temperature inside can exacerbate respiratory symptoms for people with asthma and COPD.
    — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 19 June 2023
  • In people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), exercise capacity and respiratory function increase.
    — Cory Martin, Verywell Health, 1 Dec. 2024

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