Not long after he arrived in Boston, he treated an Armenian woman for chronic bronchitis.

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The company delivers oxygen supplies to home-based patients suffering from such ailments as emphysema, chronic bronchitis and asthma.

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Incidences of asthma, heart attacks, and chronic bronchitis are all higher in areas where the concentration of fine particulate matter is higher.

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Chronic bronchitis estimates are for adults 18 and over who had been diagnosed in 2007, based on national rates (NHIS) applied to county population estimates (U.S. Census).

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Take the Aral Sea in Central Asia, now a shrunken, poisonous cesspool of pesticide residues and toxic chemicals that are causing an explosion of chronic bronchitis, cancer, typhoid and hepatitis, kidney and liver disease.

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According to the report, 58 million children under the age of 17, 28 million senior citizens over the age of 65, 31 million people who suffer from asthma and 15 million people with chronic emphysema or chronic bronchitis live in counties that are entirely or partially within a 50-mile radius of the offending power plants.

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