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When many think of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), they think of it as a man's disease. But, as the rise in prevalence of COPD in women increases, it's important to explore the gender differences in COPD. Here's what you need to know about how COPD affects women differently than men and COPD symptoms in women.
当提及慢性阻塞性肺病(COPD)时,很多人认为这是男人的疾病。但是,随着女性COPD患病率的增加,探索慢性阻塞性肺病的性别差异也变得很重要。下面就是你需要知道的关于慢性阻塞性肺病对女性有何不同于男性的影响及女性COPD症状是什么。
COPD Statistics
慢性阻塞性肺疾病的统计
There has always been a perception that COPD occurs more predominantly in men than in women.
一直有一种观点就是COPD的发病者中，男性远远多于女性。
This observation was perhaps initially supported by statistics such as those in 1959, when the number of men compared to women who died from the disease was five to one. The way we envisioned COPD began to change, however, as mortality rates in women dying from the disease between 1968 and 1999 increased by 382 percent, while in men, only 27 percent.
这个调查可能是最初统计数据，例如1959年,在该病中，男女死亡率的数量比例是五比一。然而我们所认为的COPD的患病者开始改变，妇女死于这种疾病的死亡率在1968年和1999年之间增加了382%,而男性只增加了27%。
As the death toll in women continues to rise, the year 2000 marked the first year that more women than men died from COPD, and that trend has continued.
随着女性总体死亡人数的继续上升,在2000年，死于慢性阻塞性肺病的女性超过了男性,成为标志性的第一年,而这一趋势仍在继续。
Not All Symptoms Are Created Equal
并不是所有的症状都男女都相同
The hallmark symptoms of COPD include dyspnea, chronic cough and sputum production. Experts have recently found that the effects COPD has on women are far more detrimental than they are in men, which supports gender-related differences in COPD symptoms. Reportedly, women are more likely to experience the following symptomatic variations:
慢性阻塞性肺病的标志性症状包括呼吸困难、慢性咳嗽和痰液产生。专家最近发现慢性阻塞性肺病对女性的影响比男性更为不利,同时也表明了COPD症状在性别上的差异。据报道,女性更可能经历以下的症状变化：
1.more severe shortness of breath
1.呼吸更加困难
2.more anxiety and depression
2.更加焦虑和抑郁
3.a lower quality of life
3.比较低的生活质量
4.increased airway hyper-responsiveness
4.增加气管的高反应性
5.worse exercise performance
5.破坏运动性能
Furthermore, women have more frequent exacerbations than do men and are at greater risk of malnutrition.
此外,与男性相比，女性发病更频繁且营养不良的风险更大。
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