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Emphysema: Smoking
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Emphysema causes great suffering and is difficult to treat. A number of unproven therapies are constantly being offered by mail and over the Internet. These therapies may involve combinations of herbs and vitamins. Occasionally, a drug that has shown promise in animal research (vitamin A derivatives or retinoids) will be advertised.
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Emphysema-related signs and symptoms may ... include fatigue, recurrent respiratory infections and weight loss. By the time symptoms appear, people with emphysema may have permanently lost as much as 60 percent lung function. Slight loss of lung function is a normal part of aging; people with emphysema or chronic bronchitis tend to lose lung function faster than non-smokers.
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Emphysema cannot be cured. Once you have emphysema you are stuck with it. What you can do is you can slow down the effects of emphysema, the bad effects, and the sooner you stop smoking the sooner you're going to get a chance to turn some of this around. Emphysema is a slow progression towards dying.
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It is possible that the main title of the report Emphysema, Congenital Lobar is not the name you expected. Please check the synonyms listing to find the alternate name(s) and disorder subdivision(s) covered by this report.
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