Explore strategies for controlling COPD and improving health, with a focus on management and lifestyle changes.

Researchers have identified new lung function and blood test cutoffs to improve timely chronic hypercapnia management in ...

This document provides a systematic, evidence-based review of the pulmonary rehabilitation literature that updates the 1997 guidelines published by the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP ...

The following is a summary of “Assessing the Clinical and Functional Status of COPD Patients Using Speech Analysis During and ...

If a threshold of 10% risk of COPD was used to make spirometry referrals, the addition of the polygenic risk score correctly ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can result from chronic bronchitis or emphysema. Some people may also have COPD and asthma, which can worsen both conditions. Chronic obstructive ...

The growing prevalence of COPD among women can be attributed to a combination of biological, environmental, and societal ...

Among patients with COPD who experienced an exacerbation, the risk for cardiovascular events was highest in the following 2 weeks and stayed elevated more than 1 year after, according to study results ...

It has been found in a recent study published in Heliyon that individuals who are genetically predisposed to having ...

A spirometry test is a tool you and your doctor can use to determine which COPD treatments are right for you at each stage of the disease. Healthline has strict sourcing guidelines and relies on ...

Exercise PH — measured by the mPAP/CO slope — may predict survival in patients with normal or mildly elevated pulmonary arterial pressure.