Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a persistent respiratory disease that may cause long-term, progressive lung damage. Acute exacerbations are when a person’s respiratory symptoms ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a long-term lung disease affecting at least 15 million American adults. It’s also the fourth leading cause of disease-attributed death. This makes ...

Exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are associated with accelerated loss of lung function and death. Identification of patients at risk for these events, particularly those ...

Retrospective studies have shown that statins decrease the rate and severity of exacerbations, the rate of hospitalization, and mortality in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We ...

Table 1 reports the total number of patients with COPD and the number experiencing an MI or stroke. There were 25,857 patients with COPD in 277 practices at the start of the observation period. Over ...

A recent study explored exacerbation history to determine what it revealed about prognosis. The findings suggested that exacerbation severity history was predictive of future exacerbation status.

Getting an asthma diagnosis means you have to learn some new lingo. Your doctor may throw around phrases like “peak flow readings” (a way to measure how well your lungs are functioning), “short-acting ...

Asthma is a heterogeneous disease more appropriately seen as a syndrome rather than a single pathologic entity. Although it can remain quiescent for extended time periods, the inflammatory and ...

In pediatric and adult populations, a significant relationship between asthma exacerbations and extreme heat at night and ...

Early initiation of maintenance medication in patients with moderate to severe COPD exacerbations is associated with reduced risk of future exacerbations and lower costs. Objectives: To examine the ...

To derive a clinical prediction rule (CPR) for short-term death following an acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD). All persons ⩾40 years (to exclude patients with potential asthma) attending a HC of ...