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COPD is similar to asthma, but it is not the same disease. Medicines can usually reverse the affects of asthma, but COPD is progressive disease, and medicines cannot reverse the effects of COPD. The only way to be sure you have COPD rather than asthma is to have a breathing test called a spirometry test.
