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

The spirometry predictions were then used to predict the Global Initiative for Obstruct Lung Disease (GOLD) stage. The GOLD system classifies the severity of a patient's COPD into one of four ...

It isn’t pleasant, but there are ways to manage it. Doctors use stages to describe how severe your COPD is. This system is called the GOLD staging or grading system. COPD sneaks up on you ...

A new and interesting finding was that having a history of GERD or heartburn seems to correlate with the development of COPD exacerbations. The GOLD staging is a new initiative to define COPD ...

One example for each Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) stage is shown. OAK BROOK, Ill. – Using just one inhalation lung CT scan, a deep learning model can accurately ...