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Predicting mortality.

There are many other factors in predicting mortality with COPD. This test is not perfect. Someone with a very high score could live for decades and someone with a low score might pass tomorrow. This test is for making general predictions not for individual predictions.

So I asked my Dr., what good is it then? I’m still as in the dark as I ever was!

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