Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences urged Russians to massively check for COPD

In Russia, smoking patients are massively misdiagnosed with chronic bronchitis. To identify the true clinical picture, spirometry should be performed and tested for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), said Sergey Avdeev, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, chief pulmonologist of the Ministry of Health, on September 3.

"Patients are often mistakenly diagnosed with chronic bronchitis — in our country, statistics on this disease are overestimated by two times. If you look at these patients, many of them have ten years of smoking experience. It is enough to do spirometry and we will immediately see a violation of respiratory function, which is a clear sign of COPD," he said. Lenta.ru .

According to the doctor, all smokers over the age of 40 should undergo the procedure. He noted that a simple study would help detect COPD "two to four times more often."

For health reasons: The incidence of acute respiratory viral infections has been increasing in Russia since the end of summer

The Saratov and Kemerovo regions have the most colds.

Earlier, on August 23, it was reported that the number of cases of infection with a new variant of coronavirus "Stratus" in Russia is growing, 384 cases have been identified so far. The contagiousness of the new variant of the virus is due to the need for it to change and acquire new properties. The consequences of coronavirus infection can be different.

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