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– Several studies in progress are studying why some people develop a COP more easily than others. According to Åsa Wheelock, Professor of Experimental Pulmonary Medicine and Medical Specialist at the Heart Lung Foundation, women's lung function is worsened by smoking and now several molecular differences between the sexes have been identified.
In the past 20 years, COPD mortality has increased significantly among women. In 1997, 12.9 per 100,000 women with COPD in Jönköping County, according to standardized statistics from the National Board of Health
Differences
2016, the proportion rose to 23.1 women out of 100,000 , an increase of 80%. The trend can be explained to some extent by the fact that the proportion of female smokers has been greater than the proportion of smokers since the early 1990s, but new research supported by the Heart Lung Foundation shows differences in how women and men are affected by smoking.
The hope is that the research will lead to more effective treatment and the possibility of diagnosing COPD at an early stage.
Major Suffering
great suffering for those who suffer. If research can lead to a better understanding of why people are affected to varying degrees, we can reverse the negative trend and make fewer people die prematurely, "said Kristina Sparreljung, General Secretary of the Foundation. Heart Lung, research projects aimed at reversing the negative trend and helping more than 500,000 people living in Sweden with COPD