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The move will enable the country’s more than 100 million chronic pulmonary disease patients to access free annual check-ups. China has added chronic lung diseases including bronchitis and emphysema to a key national public health program, which will give millions of patients access to free, regular check-ups for the first time. Lung diseases are a major public health issue in China. Though the country has reduced air pollution in major cities over the past decade, it still has a high smoking rate, with over 300 million people using tobacco regularly. That has led to a high incidence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a basket of conditions associated with restricted lung function that includes bronchitis and emphysema. There are an estimated 100 million COPD sufferers in China, with as many as one in eight people over 40 affected by the disease. Over one-quarter of the world’s COPD patients are Chinese, according to the World Health Organization. But the vast majority
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