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Rate's down in males, up in females
Jump to full article: (Madison, WI) Capital Times, 2003-09-16
Author: Anita Weier
Intro: A silent killer in Wisconsin is starting to stalk women more than men.
It goes by a relatively new name - chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - but has an old cause, cigarette smoking, in 85 percent of the cases.
Doctors and officials from the Wisconsin Public Health and Health Policy Institute and the American Lung Association of Wisconsin released a report on COPD on Monday at the State Capitol.
They said that in the past 20 years, deaths of Wisconsin women from COPD - an umbrella term for ailments that obstruct airflow to the lungs, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis - more than quadrupled. . . .
In the not-so-distant future, COPD may be a predominantly female disease, the study said.
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