for your health breathe easier chronic obstructive pulmonary disease may leave you short of breath by nissa simon costco connection prescriptions for bronchodilators can be filled at costco pharmacies where members can also get their annual flu shots talk to your local pharmacist for more information ymptoms may start with shortness chronic obstructive pulmonary term for a condition that includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema the first symptom of copd may be shortness of breath when climbing stairs and copd program at northwestern sure they have bronchitis and depend on an to ignore a bothersome cough and assume that once they quit they'll breathe more these symptoms often represent a more serious underlying disease according to the american lung may have the disease without knowing it of medicine pointed out the importance of est form of copd who were treated fared better overall than those who were not how is copd diagnosed? small device that records how much air you quickly you exhale with copd the airways in the lungs the body's tissues receive less oxygen and it becomes more difficult to get rid of waste in deeply or exhale efficiently," says costco the university of pittsburgh medical center who gets it? copd used to be considered a disease of the disease has claimed the lives of more only by heart disease and cancer new treatments have reduced symptoms and improved quality of life substantially comments kalhan
