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

Using the Global Initiative for COPD criteria, a postbronchodilator ... 6-min walk test within the ED is probably impractical. The Medical Research Council (MRC) dyspnea scale is a relatively ...

2 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon The author has no relevant affiliations or financial ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a condition that affects more than 14 million U.S. adults, is marked by damage ...

You must go to a doctor to know for sure whether you have COPD. That’s because there are things to consider for a diagnosis. Some people have asthma and COPD at the same time. If you have ...

Outpatient management of patients with cancer-associated pulmonary embolism (PE) may be a feasible, safe approach with low short-term rates of recurrent venous thromboembolism (VTE), major bleeding, ...

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

Chronic lower respiratory diseases, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), are the sixth leading cause of ...

with studies still evaluating the effect of long-term management in eosinophilic COPD. However, the potential to manage critical moments, when symptoms suddenly worsen, had not been studied before.

People with COPD experience more falls and related injuries requiring medical care when using common fall-risk increasing drugs, according to a new study. The study is published in the November ...

About 10% of Sri Lankans over the age of 40 are affected by Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), a condition often linked to smoking, prolonged exposure to air pollution, or untreated asthma, ...

Globally, COPD is also a leading cause of death. Data from the World Health Organization in 2021 ranked it as the fourth leading cause of death worldwide. The disease’s prevalence and impact ...