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- There are many reasons why chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(copd) deserves to be high on the list of disease targets and research.copd is still a major public health problem because has an highprevalence and it is a leading cause of morbidity and mortalityworldwide creating a formidable challenge for the health-caresystems. Copd is one of the most frequent causes of unscheduledvisits in the offices of general practitioners and specialists and ofemergency wards visits and hospital admissions.for every copd patientthat physicians could avoid putting on a long-term ventilator and/oroxygen therapy this will save an enormous amount of money of theitalian national health service. Regione emilia-romagna has one of thebest attractively (requests of being cured from other italian regions)mobility of italy for copd patients.