An estimated 12 million Americans have been diagnosed with COPD.
- Doctors believe that another 12 million have undiagnosed COPD.
- Annual health care costs for COPD exceed $32 billion.
- More than 700,000 Americans are hospitalized each year with COPD.
- In 2005, 120,000 Americans died from COPD.
- 1.5 million emergency room visits were due to COPD.
- COPD is currently the fourth leading cause of death in the US.
