/newsroom/taxonomy/term/10153/all en /newsroom/channels/news/why-do-some-non-smokers-get-copd-while-many-heavy-smokers-dont-322660 <p>Smoking is the best-known risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a debilitating lung condition that can severely limit a person’s day-to-day activities. But curiously, only a minority of lifelong smokers develops the disease, while non-smokers represent more than 25% of all COPD cases. A new study published today in <i>The Journal of the American Medical Association </i>suggests that a developmental mismatch between airway and lung size—a condition called dysanapsis—could answer why.</p> Tue, 09 Jun 2020 12:55:51 +0000 amelia.souffrant@mail.mcgill.ca 215519 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/unusual-lung-structures-may-raise-risk-pulmonary-disease-284407 <p><span>The internal anatomy of our lungs is surprisingly variable, and some of those variations are associated with a greater risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a new study led by researchers at UUÖ±²¥ and the </span><a href="http://newsroom.cumc.columbia.edu/blog/2018/01/20/one-in-four-have-unusual-lungs-and-that-may-raise-lung-disease-risk/">Columbia University Irving Medical Center</a><span> has found.</span></p> Thu, 01 Feb 2018 20:27:41 +0000 nathan.menezes@mail.mcgill.ca 32921 at /newsroom /newsroom/richard-fraser Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 23786 at /newsroom