GSK in focus

COPD: beyond a
'smokers cough'

Apart from cancer, heart attack, AIDS, malaria
and tuberculosis, can you name a disease
that kills, on average, one person every
10 seconds?

The answer is chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease (COPD). It's not
'smoker's cough', as commonly thought,
but rather an under-diagnosed, life-threatening lung disease.

To mark World COPD Day on 19 November, we look at this
relatively unknown disease and the treatments available.