Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is now the 4th leading cause of death worldwide and it is projected to be the third leading cause of death by 2020 due to an increase in smoking rates and demographic changes in many countries.

        In Taiwan, one in every six male over the age of 40 has the COPD and in the year 2008 alone, 1.02 million of patients are hospitalized for having the disease.

        To help these patients to live a better life, SeQual Technologies Co., Ltd, works together with the Taipei Medical University Department of Respiratory Therapy, come up with a set of exercise made exclusively for the patients of COPD.

        The exercise is expected to help these patients to spend only ten minutes to twenty minutes per day to do some simple exercise to help them improve their respirations.

       The Taipei Medical University and SeQual Technologies Co., Ltd will also hold two seminars on March 27 and April 10 at the University to each patients with COPD to do the exercise.

Free pamphlet on how to do the exercise will also be given to participants at the sight.

By Joseph Yeh, Taiwan News, Page 17
2010-03-22 12:00 AM

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