Full Text of HR0331 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a | 3 | | term used to describe airflow obstruction that is associated | 4 | | mainly with emphysema and chronic bronchitis; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, COPD affects an estimated 24 million people and | 6 | | kills more than 120,000 Americans every year; on average, one | 7 | | person dies from COPD every 4 minutes, an alarming statistic | 8 | | for a disease many have not learned about; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, In 2010, the National Center for Health Statistics | 10 | | released a report stating that in 2008 COPD became the third | 11 | | leading cause of death in the United States; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Pulmonary experts predict that, by the year 2020, | 13 | | COPD will become the 3rd leading cause of death worldwide; and | 14 | | WHEREAS, COPD currently accounts for 1.5 million emergency | 15 | | room visits, 726,000 hospitalizations, and 8 million physician | 16 | | office and hospital outpatient visits, all of which are a | 17 | | detriment to the U.S. economy; COPD costs the nation an | 18 | | estimated $42.6 billion in direct and indirect medical costs | 19 | | annually; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, COPD affects over 550,000 citizens of the State of |
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| 1 | | Illinois; the Illinois COPD Coalition, convened by the | 2 | | Respiratory Health Association, is implementing the State Plan | 3 | | for Addressing COPD in Illinois, a state-wide effort to | 4 | | increase early detection, improve care and treatment, and | 5 | | prevent and reduce the prevalence of the disease; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Research has identified a hereditary protein | 7 | | deficiency called Alpha-1 Antitrypsin; people with this | 8 | | deficiency tend to develop COPD, even without exposure to | 9 | | smoking or environmental triggers; and | 10 | | WHEREAS, Recently, the death rate for women with COPD has | 11 | | surpassed the death rate of men with COPD; women over the age | 12 | | of 40 are the fastest-growing segment of the population | 13 | | developing this irreversible disease, due in large part to the | 14 | | equalization of opportunities for men and women to smoke over | 15 | | the past several generations; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, There is currently no cure for COPD; spirometry | 17 | | testing and medical treatments exist to address symptom relief | 18 | | and possibly slow the progression of the disease; and | 19 | | WHEREAS, Until there is a cure, the best approaches to | 20 | | preventing COPD and its considerable health, societal, and | 21 | | mortality impacts lie with education, awareness, and expanded | 22 | | delivery of detection and management protocols; therefore, be |
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| 2 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 3 | | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 4 | | we designate the month of November as COPD Awareness Month in | 5 | | the State of Illinois in recognition of this deadly disease and | 6 | | its effects on the citizens of this State.
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