Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Open Access

Chronic bronchitis is a pulmonary disorder causes inflammation of the bronchial tubes symptomized by cough, shortness of breath, chest pain. There are two types of bronchitis: acute bronchitis and chronic bronchitis. Patients suffering from this disease release a lot of mucus and has difficulty of breathing.

People often ignore the signs of chronic bronchitis until it is advanced, because they mistakenly believe that the disease is not life-threatening. But if you wait to seek treatment, your lungs may already have been seriously injured. This puts you in danger of developing serious respiratory problems or heart failure. The good news is that chronic bronchitis can be found early and there is much that can be done to treat and help manage the disease.

Cigarette smoking is by far the most common cause of chronic bronchitis. The airways of people with chronic bronchitis may also have been irritated initially by bacterial or viral infectio

Related Journals of Chronic Bronchitis

Journal of Pulmonary & Respiratory Medicine, Journal of Nursing & Care, Preventing chronic disease, Therapeutic Advances in Chronic Disease, Chronic diseases and injuries in Canada, Chronic lllness, Chronic Respiratory Disease, COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.