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COPD and heart health are closely interconnected, and the reasons begin with their shared root cause. In most patients, COPD develops due to smoking-related lung damage and smoking affects both the lungs and the heart simultaneously. It leads to irreversible destruction of the alveoli (the functional air sacs of the lungs), resulting in COPD, while also causing blockages in the coronary arteries that supply blood to the heart. In other words, the same causative factor, smoking damages both organs.

Dr. Nevin Kishore, Senior Consultant and Head of Bronchology, Max Hospital, Gurgaon, explains, “Firstly, because lung and heart disease often stem from the same cause, there is a direct clinical correlation between the two."

Dr Kishore further adds, “Secondly, patients

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