Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease (COPD) is a disabling lung disease, which kills 10 people in Denmark every day, and at least 300.000 people are affected by the disease.
COPD is an insidious disease, which often first is diagnosed when about half of the lung capacity is lost. Thus, it is possible to have COPD without knowing it. However, the diagnosis is easily made, by measuring the pulmonary function.
GOLD is an international programme - initiated by the WHO and leading experts in lung disease - with the purpose of fighting the COPD epidemic. GOLD has published Global Guidelines for the management of COPD, which constitutes the standard for COPD care worldwide. GOLD has also initiated
World COPD Day, which in 2008 is held on Wednesday, Nov., 19th
GOLDCOPD.DK, is a danish resource on COPD. If you seek information about COPD and the GOLD initiative in english we recommend that you visit the International GOLD website. Thank you for visiting the danish GOLD website.
