Another chronic disease to watch for is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which affects the lungs and makes it ...

A study reveals childhood smoking significantly increases COPD risk in adulthood, highlighting the need for targeted ...

Medically reviewed by Rafle Fernandez, MD Valvular heart disease, sometimes called heart valve disease, is when one or more ...

A heart failure cough is a persistent cough in someone with late- or end-stage congestive heart failure. The cough may sound like whistling, be "wet," and be accompanied by mucus. A heart failure ...

Idiopathic Pulmonary ... facts of this disease. Late presentation: Usually, IPF is diagnosed in later stages of the disease. Several factors contribute for delayed diagnosis, chronic cough is ...

Five of these infants died; all had cardiac enlargement and right-sided congestive heart failure on post-mortem examination. Four survived with chronic pulmonary disease. One of those who survived ...