November, 20: World COPD Day
November 20th is World COPD Day. The twenty-second only. World Tuberculosis Day has been around for 42 years! What does this show to us?
That COPD is a relatively “young” disease that is still unexplored in many areas. At the same time, the number of patients has been rising steadily for years!
Science and medicine have to catch up here, don’t they? Something that other disease areas have already achieved. For example, it’s only in the recent years that we as researchers at LHI realized how interdisciplinary and broad the view of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease must be:
- Systemic - Heart, muscles and blood vessels affected
- Complex - Individual consequences and subtypes
- Many risks - smoking, air pollution, genetics, diet, lifestyle
Read how the international network COPD-iNET is collaborating to fight COPD:
https://www.copd-inet.com/
https://publications.ersnet.org/content/erj/64/3/2400921
Get inspiring insights into our mission to prevent, treat, and one day cure COPD:
https://www.helmholtz-munich.de/en/newsroom/news-all/artikel/promising-therapeutic-approach-against-copd
https://www.helmholtz-munich.de/en/newsroom/news-all/artikel/air-pollution-and-herpes-virus-how-nanoparticles-promote-chronic-lung-diseases-like-copd
About World COPD Day:
World COPD Day is organized by the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) in collaboration with health care professionals and COPD patient groups throughout the world. Its aim is to raise awareness, share knowledge, and discuss ways to reduce the burden of COPD worldwide. The first World COPD Day was held in 2002.