Jun 30

 

Lung diseases are a common cause of death among Americans. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, chronic lower respiratory diseases killed 127,924 Americans in 2007, and influenza and pneumonia killed 52,717. The U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health states that millions of Americans have lung disease, and that if all types of lung disease are grouped together, it’s one of the top three killers in the United States.

 

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