You may experience symptoms such as cough, sleepiness, breathlessness, chest condition, and slow walking with emphysema or bronchitis. A spirometry test is one way to distinguish the type of lung ...

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Depending on the effects of COPD on your lungs, you may develop one of the two main types of COPD: emphysema or chronic bronchitis. Emphysema is a disease of the alveoli. It damages the fibers ...

By analyzing multiple emphysema and COPD patient datasets, SPP1 is significantly upregulated in the lungs of patients, ...