Breathlessness

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dyspnea

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• Although breathlessness is a major symptom of the disease affecting 70 per cent of sufferers, this nurse-led trial is the first piece of major research to look for a solution.
• A very important contribution to controlling breathlessness is trying to plan your activities so that you can do them in small steps and trying not to get too frightened or upset if you become breathless.
• Breathlessness is common in people with advanced disease and opioid drugs are often used to treat it.
• The perception of breathlessness is a subject-related factor which is linked to respiratory disease, cardiac disease and overweight.
• Breathlessness is a major symptom of COPD.

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