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English Pop Star Amy Winehouse, Just 24, May Have COPD
LONDON—English singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse has been hospitalized this week for lung problems that her father said were diagnosed as COPD, which he blamed on her smoking cigarettes and crack cocaine.
Winehouse’s publicist later denied the singer had been diagnosed with COPD.
Winehouse, who won five Grammy awards in 2006 for her smash hit album Back to Black, is just 24. A diagnosis of COPD is extremely rare at that age, and a British newspaper speculates on a genetic cause, such as Alpha-1.
