Current recommendations for diagnosis of COPD in patients with respiratory symptoms require detection of airflow obstruction ...

The schema newly classified 15.4% of persons without airflow obstruction as having COPD by minor diagnostic category, Surya P ...

AECOPD: Acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; COPD: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; ICS: Inhaled corticosteroids; LABA: Long-acting β 2-agonists; LAMA: Long-acting ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved GSK's Nucala (mepolizumab) as an add-on maintenance treatment for adult ...

University of Alabama at Birmingham-led researchers have refined and validated a new framework for diagnosing chronic ...

In vivo platelet activation and related pathways may be linked to small airways disease and pulmonary vascular changes in smokers.

Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are chronic respiratory ... spirometry, and imaging scans to provide an accurate diagnosis. Pulmonary function tests check to see how ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) makes it hard to breathe ... director of the Center for Lung Analytics and Imaging Research (CLAIR) and professor of airways disease at the University ...

The singer died of “exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and bronchial asthma together with low-grade lower respiratory-tract infection,” the report said. It was submitted by ...

In the peripheral airways of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, as compared with normal peripheral airways, there is airflow limitation due to a variable mixture of loss of ...