1) the use of statins. 2. Throat "errors"

These are up to you how and if you publish them

If this has not been touched upon before here are just two of a myriad of learned treatises which suggest hat taking steroids c a n reduce exacerbations. The common factor of many is that the patient must have had in-treatment for COPD; to me the suggestion is that they are ensuring that the patients are sufficiently ill to be included in studies. Decisions vary - one claims that increasing the ingestion of statins can cut the number of exacerbations by 45%; I find this "generous" given that it was an unstated range of increase but over here the pills range from 10 mg to 90mg and we do not know what the starting dose was. However there seems to agreement hat statins CAN help reduce the number of exacerbations.
https://www.google.com/search?q=can+statins+help+copd&client=firefox-b-d&sca_esv=b5919fffce7396f9&sca_upv=1&sxsrf=ADLYWIJwIVwGM5nA4fDSBXvITBhbxWfm6Q%3A1723018983820&ei=5y6zZqDbMa2uhbIPgLHmiAs&oq=copd+++++++Cholesterol-lowering+medicines&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiKWNvcGQgICAgICAgQ2hvbGVzdGVyb2wtbG93ZXJpbmcgbWVkaWNpbmVzKgIIATIIEAAYgAQYogQyCBAAGIAEGKIEMggQABiABBiiBDIIEAAYgAQYogQyCBAAGIAEGKIESNSQAVAAWNJWcAF4AZABAJgB1gGgAegJqgEFNi4zLjK4AQHIAQD4AQGYAgygArgKmAMAkgcFNS41LjKgB5Un&sclient=gws-wiz-serp

https://respiratory-research.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12931-019-0984-3

This second one is useful in that it gives links to other studies. These are just two of perhaps 80 studies I found in a few minutes on the internet.

Patients MUS see their health practitioners but this might be something for them to show.

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Item 2.
What did you bring up and why? When things go wrong - an explanation.

OK so the throat is connected to the nostrils, to the lungs, to the mouth and to the stomach.
When something goes in the mouth it should go either to the stomach (food, drink) or to the lungs (air). From the nose air to the lungs (obviously) but also the nose secretes a liquid which ends up in the stomach and is eventually removed from the body..
Early one morning a cough brought up a little blue pill (No! not that little blue pill)- an anti allergy pill I took the night before. Another morning I cleared my nose inwards and spat out the "stuff" which included a COPD pill I took the night before. There have been numerous other similar occasions when such things have happened. In most cases the object was identifiable by color or shape.
The cause is that your throat contains a membrane which moves to direct things to the correct exit; with age this gets old and mistakes are made. It is not COPD - just age.
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