What is the life expectancy of someone with copd?

Researchers recently came up with a way to assess the health of someone with COPD. The method combines lung function test results with a person's symptoms. These measures result in labels that can help predict life expectancy in those with COPD. read more

Still, one group of researchers recently did try to address this very question of life expectancy by stage of COPD. They concluded that for otherwise healthy 65-year-old men with Stage I COPD, life expectancy ranges from 14 to 18 years, depending on whether the person was a current, former, or never smoker. read more

For former smokers, the reduction in life expectancy is: stage 2: 1.4 years; stage 3 or 4: 5.6 years; For those who never smoked, the reduction in life expectancy is: stage 2: 0.7 years; stage 3 or 4: 1.3 years; For former smokers and never smokers, the difference in life expectancy for people at stage 0 and people at stage 1 was statistically insignificant. read more

Because COPD and other chronic, progressive lung diseases affect everyone differently, there’s no way to accurately predict the life expectancy of people with COPD. However, researchers and doctors have come up with ways to estimate and measure life expectancy and prognosis by placing COPD into stages. read more