Do I Need to Be Tested for COPD?

• Do you (now) or have you ever smoked?
• Are you short of breath more often than other people?
• Do you have a cough that does not go away? For example: daily coughing or the ‘morning’ cough?
• If you cough, do you cough up mucus?
• Do people around you smoke?
• Do you work around chemicals and dust?
• Does bronchitis or emphysema run in your family?
• Do you wheeze (a whistling or squeaky sound when you breathe)

If you have answered, “yes” to any one of these questions, ask your doctor about having a simple breathing test to check for COPD.