A new study has found that patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who are at high risk for hospitalization or emergency room visits from exacerbations or complications benefit from simple ...

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Credit: Getty Images. Use of the COPD case-finding tool, CAPTURE, in US primary care practice demonstrated ability to provide critical in-study information to help guide protocol adjustment based on ...

AJMC®: The 2025 update of the GOLD Report (Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease Global Strategy for Prevention, Diagnosis and Management of COPD) (GOLD 2025) recommends the ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can be easy to miss when it starts. That’s because you might not have any symptoms. But over time, you may start to cough a lot or feel short of breath ...

Fernando Martinez, MD, MS, chief of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, continues a conversation about the updates in the 2023 Global Initiative for ...

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 ...

—A recent article reviews available treatment options for patients with COPD and hypertension, assessing appropriate choices for patients in whom any pulmonary side effects would be particularly ...

The burden of COPD is not evenly distributed, with health constituency data showing that the highest prevalence is concentrated in the North of England, 5 and likely higher due to the number of people ...

COPD is a progressive disease. In its later stages, it can significantly lower life expectancy. But if you have mild COPD, you can take steps to slow or even prevent this progression. Chronic ...