Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) remains a substantial contributor to morbidity and mortality in the United States with an estimated 3.8% age-adjusted prevalence and 141,733 COPD deaths ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The 2023 Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease report defines several changes regarding ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Risk estimation was based on area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, sensitivity and specificity ...

New York, NY – March 02, 2023 – Despite COPD’s pervasiveness, it is generally assumed that the main instigator in its development is tobacco smoking. The 2023 Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive ...

This study aimed to investigate the real-world standardisation and adherence of medical treatment regimens in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the community for making ...

The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) and the Global Lung Function Initiative (GLI) have published a joint statement on the use and interpretation of spirometry for the ...

Airway-occluding mucus plugs (MPs)—as identified on CT scans—are frequent in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

AJMC®: What recent developments in the therapeutic landscape of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) do you think have the greatest potential to shift how treatment is managed? Dr Martinez: ...

Why is it that we have not seen the urgency in COPD management we would expect for a disease of this burden and scale? As a trained pulmonologist, and having dedicated my career to advancing ...

Chronic obstructive disease (COPD) is a devastating disorder that is one of the major causes of death globally according to the WHO definition. COPD is characterized by submucosal fibrosis and ...