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Website Review and Summary Tremise Lane-Jackson December 04, 2014 HCS/457 Mrs. Candi Meridith

In review article of self-management education in asthma and COPD known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. A professor of respiratory medicine and educator provide research on 5 European countries ask individuals how many times they visits their general practitioner for review of asthma or COPD. In the discussions 83% of the patients were reported to see their general practitioner that left the patients who has asthma or copd on their own for forty-nine minutes. In the article, Professor Martyn R. Partridge feels that self-management is supportive to asthma and COPD patients with the education to have knowledge to take care of them while sitting in waiting rooms. Therefore, a patient with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has several limitation of the airflow that leads to inflammation. A patient with bronchial asthma suffer with allergic that develops in childhood, it a physiologically considered by reversible airflow obstruction known as (ROAD). In other words asthma is a condition that the airway of the lungs become narrow or blocked. In some patients that has COPD it cause by tobacco smoke, later in life patients considered by moderately reversible airflow limitation that result to lung function and can lead to premature death. These two diseases are described by the physiological and anatomic extremes of COPD and asthma that makes them distinct disease. Many aging individuals has path biological and symptomatic that reevaluation the concept of COPD and asthma being a separate disease. However, asthma

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