Volume 2, Number 1, December 2007

The Breathless Patient: Is it Asthma or COPD?
Shona Shires

Breathlessness is a very common problem in the patients we see in general practice, and there is a range of possible causes. In this article – the first in a series of three looking at how to diagnose what’s wrong with a breathless patient – we explore how to distinguish between two of the commonest respiratory causes of breathlessness, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

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