COPD Awareness Month Supporters Urged to ‘Lace Up for Lungs’ #COPD 2022 #November 22-23, 2022 #webinar

 

COPD Awareness Month Supporters Urged to ‘Lace Up for Lungs’



From exercising and promoting early diagnoses, to sporting orange and sharing resources on social media, supporters are marking COPD Awareness Month observed each November and working to call attention to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

The chronic lung disorder affects 384 million people worldwide, including 16 million Americans, but is ranked in 176th place in the U.S. for research funding, according to the COPD Foundation.


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