Fast Five Quiz: Can You Properly Identify and Treat COPD?

Zab Mosenifar, MD

February 04, 2022

COPD prevalence is higher in women than in men in all age groups through 74 years of age. Severe early-onset disease probably represents a distinct genotype and is also more common in females than in males. Those with a family history of COPD, as well as Black persons, are also at increased risk for this specific type of COPD.

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Fast Five Quiz: Can You Properly Identify and Treat COPD?

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