To maintain weight, the chart below shows you your daily calorie limit. It's based on your age, activity level, and the BMI (body-mass index) of 21.5 for women and 22.5 for men. To lose weight -- about 1 pound a week -- reduce total calories in the chart by 500 a day.
With current treatments, patients with lower-risk types of some MDS can live for 5 years or even longer. Patients with higher-risk MDS that becomes acute myeloid leukemia (AML) are likely to have a shorter life span. About 30 out of 100 MDS patients will develop AML. PNH. Many people with PNH live for decades.
Those with stage one or mild emphysema have a life expectancy as any normal, healthy individual. Majority of those (60-70%) with stage two, or moderate, emphysema live more than five years after diagnosis. In stage three and four emphysema, unfortunately, life expectancy is lower.50% of those with severe emphysema live longer than four years after diagnosis. The life expectancy for those with very severe emphysema is less.mphysema patients usually do not live for more than four years after their diagnosis. Spirometers are used to calculate the life expectancy of an emphysema patient. A chest X-ray can be used to diagnose emphysema in patients. Smoking damages the lungs and increases a person's risk of developing emphysema.