Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) affects four million French people. Patients with this little-known and highly debilitating respiratory disease are among those at greatest risk in this covid-19 epidemic. France BPCO alerted the Minister of Health to raise awareness of health services in the case of patients with COPD.
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” In all epidemic being transmitted by respiratory route, individuals at higher risk are (…) COPD, the most affected of which are at the stage of respiratory insufficiency “, underlines in a press release France COPD, the association that represents these patients.
“Stop talking about old people, children – almost none of them are, luckily – diabetics, cardiovascular because (…) the Covid 19 destroys lungs and it’s not the asthmatics who are in danger either, but the 700,000 COPD at the severe stage that we are in and that nobody is talking about “Continues France COPD.
Little-known and disabling, COPD affects 4 million French people
Little-known disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is caused by inflammation and a progressive obstruction of bronchi. His symptoms : bronchitis chronic (oily cough for several months each year), repeated bronchitis or a progressive feeling of lack of air. Particularly disabling, it affects in France between 5 and 10% of adults, according to the health agency Public Health France. It cannot be cured but its evolution can be slowed down bysmoking cessation.
COPD does not breathe badly, it already suffocates permanently
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France COPD says it sent a letter to the Minister of Health Olivier Veran. In particular, it requests that the health services be made aware of the case of patients suffering from COPD, and that the latter benefit from masks the most protective (so-called FFP2), normally intended for nursing staff.
” COPD does not breathe badly, it already suffocates permanently “Continues the association, according to which these patients are” nearly 4 million in this country of which only 1 million have already been diagnosed “
Different studies have shown that in the majority of cases, Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, causes mild or moderate symptoms (cough, fever, tired…). However, in the most severe cases, patients can enter into severe acute respiratory distress. The elderly and those already suffering from another illness are the most vulnerable. According to a study published in 2017 in the journal The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, COPD killed 3.2 million people worldwide in 2015.
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