Full Text of SR0415 099th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is | 3 | | an umbrella term used to describe airflow obstruction that is | 4 | | associated mainly with emphysema and chronic bronchitis; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, COPD affects an estimated 24 million individuals | 6 | | in the United States and an estimated 580,000 individuals in | 7 | | Illinois; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, In 2010, the National Center for Health Statistics | 9 | | released a report stating that COPD had become the third | 10 | | leading cause of death in the United States; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, COPD currently accounts for 1.5 million emergency | 12 | | room visits, 699,000 hospitalizations, and 10.3 million | 13 | | physician office and hospital outpatient visits, all of which | 14 | | are detrimental to the United States economy; COPD costs the | 15 | | nation an estimated $49.9 billion in direct and indirect | 16 | | medical costs annually; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, COPD affects an estimated 580,000 citizens of the | 18 | | State of Illinois, with at least as many persons who are | 19 | | estimated to be undiagnosed; Chronic Lower Respiratory | 20 | | Disease, including COPD, is the third leading cause of death in | 21 | | the State; the Respiratory Health Association is participating |
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| 1 | | in statewide efforts to increase early detection, improve care | 2 | | and treatment, and prevent and reduce the prevalence of the | 3 | | disease; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, Research has identified a hereditary protein | 5 | | deficiency called Alpha-1 Antitrypsin; people with this | 6 | | deficiency tend to develop COPD, despite the lack of exposure | 7 | | to smoking and environmental triggers; and | 8 | | WHEREAS, Women over the age of 40 are the fastest growing | 9 | | segment of the population to develop this irreversible disease, | 10 | | due in large part to the equalization of opportunity for men | 11 | | and women to smoke over the past several generations; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, There is currently no cure for COPD; spirometry | 13 | | testing and medical treatments, such as pulmonary | 14 | | rehabilitation, exist to address symptom relief and possibly | 15 | | slow progression of the disease; and | 16 | | WHEREAS, Until there is a cure, the best approaches to | 17 | | preventing COPD and its considerable health, societal, and | 18 | | mortality impacts lie in education, awareness, and expanded | 19 | | delivery of detection and management protocols; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, The Respiratory Health Association and its | 21 | | partners from the Illinois State COPD Plan will work with the |
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| 1 | | Illinois Department of Public Health and other relevant | 2 | | partners to seek opportunities to promote awareness and | 3 | | treatment for COPD; therefore, be it | 4 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL | 5 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we designate the month | 6 | | of November as COPD Awareness Month in the State of Illinois | 7 | | and encourage others to promote education, awareness, and | 8 | | screening of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
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