Definition
Labels Emphysema
Emphysema is a form of progressive lung disease that is characterized by
chronic shortness of breath and long-term disability. It is sometimes
grouped together with chronic bronchitis under the name of chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD. Many people who are diagnosed
with emphysema also have chronic bronchitis.
The High Cost of Emphysema
Emphysema has claimed the lives of many noteworthy
people in the twentieth and twenty-first
centuries:
chronic shortness of breath and long-term disability. It is sometimes
grouped together with chronic bronchitis under the name of chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD. Many people who are diagnosed
with emphysema also have chronic bronchitis.
The High Cost of Emphysema
Emphysema has claimed the lives of many noteworthy
people in the twentieth and twenty-first
centuries:
- Actors: Tallulah Bankhead, Paulette
Goddard, Robert Mitchum, Vincent Price,
Barbara Stanwyck, Spencer Tracy - Entertainers: Johnny Carson, Arthur
Godfrey, Dean Martin, Allan Sherman - Musicians: Leonard Bernstein
- Politicians and public figures: William
O’Neill, Patricia Nixon (wife of President
Richard Nixon), Coleman Young - Writers and poets: Samuel Beckett,
William F. Buckley, Jr., Erskine Caldwell, T.
S. Eliot, Robert Heinlein
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