Talk:Chronic bronchitis

Bronchitis as cause of death
Which form of bronchitis is fatal, and what is the manner of death? I ask as a result of the recently created category Category:Deaths from bronchitis. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 20:52, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * This is it? The whole article? It sucks...which is what people comuing here can't do. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.240.240.5 (talk) 10:12, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Aren't they all potentially fatal? 109.158.139.223 (talk) 13:56, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

Co-morbitity with asthmatics
I seem to remember that there is a stong corelation between wheather somebody has been diagnosed with Chronic Bronchitis and whether they have been diagnosed with the predisposition named "Asthma". I think this was known about even before the concept of C.O.P.D. was invented. If a diagnosis of Chronic Bronchitis can lead to Asthma being concidered this is important.(87.80.103.44 (talk) 23:11, 25 January 2010 (UTC))

Primary topic
The term chronic bronchitis in common usage means COPD. The term chronic bronchitis in technical usage means a long term productive cough. Thus there is no primary usage. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 14:52, 7 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Of course there is a primary topic that is Chronic bronchitis. The other topic isn't even a recognised topic. Do you really think that there is an equal number of people searching for each of these items? "Older term for" is a fabrication - it is the same topic whether it is referred to by anyone as an older term for COPD, the disease chronic bronchitis is the term being referred to - The "topic" did not exist until 2019 when you made it one.


 * The term in technical usage...? How on earth were 8.6 million Americans diagnosed with Chronic bronchitis in 2106 - which they were. They were not diagnosed with COPD or with a long term productive cough; they were diagnosed with chronic bronchitis; you cannot diagnose a symptom.


 * What exactly is your take on this - on the page you describe it as older term for COPD - yet here you say it is in common usage for COPD ? Seems you just want to be right - i prefer that the information that the encyclopedia provides is right.--Iztwoz (talk) 15:53, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Do I think there is an equal number of people looking for COPD when searching for Chronic bronchitis? Actually I think there is more people searching for COPD rather than a chronic long term cough. Most of those with chronic bronchitis have COPD.
 * Why do you think the CDC says says COPD "includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis"? Why do you think Harrison's does not deal with chronic bronchitis and emphysema separately but deal with them only within the chapter on COPD?
 * Yes the lay public are still searching for the old term. This is like how people still search for ADD when they mean ADHD. This does not mean that we should not redirect ADD to ADHD.
 * Our goal is not to reflect medical opinion as it was 20 years ago. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 15:59, 7 June 2019 (UTC)