The Lancet23h
Vitamin D and acute respiratory infections: a definitive answer?
Acute respiratory infections (ARIs) are a common cause of illness in children younger than 16 years and adults older than 65 ...
Medicine Buffalo1d
Study: Mindfulness helps people with COPD manage anxiety, breathlessness, insomnia
Led by Tania T. Von Visger, PhD, and Yu-Ping Chang, PhD, the study surveyed 339 adults with COPD. Participants who practice ...
Certain glucose-lowering meds associated with lower risk for COPD exacerbations
For patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 ...
Study demonstrates feasibility, effectiveness of mobile care for COPD
A multimodal, digital community-based intervention was feasible and decreased illness-related distress in treating patients ...
thorax.bmj19d
Beta-blocker use and acute exacerbations of COPD following myocardial infarction: a Danish nationwide cohort study
Introduction Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are undertreated with beta-blockers following myocardial infarction (MI), possibly due to fear for acute exacerbations of COPD ...
thorax.bmj19d
COPD discharge bundle and pulmonary rehabilitation referral and uptake following hospitalisation for acute exacerbation of COPD
imperial.ac.uk Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) following hospitalisations for acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD) is associated with improved exercise capacity and quality of life, and reduced ...
Medscape19d
Geographic Variation of Spirometry Use in Newly Diagnosed COPD
Background: Studies indicate that not all physicians in clinical practice use spirometry routinely in the diagnosis of COPD. Understanding the patterns of spirometry use across geographic regions ...
BMJ19d
Impact of using spirometry on clinical decision making and quality of life in children: protocol for a single centre randomised controlled trial
Exclusion criteria are: (1) previously enrolled or (2) contraindication for spirometry including presence of acute dyspnoea, pneumothorax, haemoptysis, vital signs instability, lung cyst or bleb and ...
Medscape21d
Speed of Recovery from Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease after Treatment with Antimicrobials
Objective: We performed a multicentre study under a 2-year observational protocol that included data on time to recovery from acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AE-COPD ...
Healthline22d
The Four Stages of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
The GOLD system previously classified COPD from stages 1 to 4 solely based on your lung capacity measured by a spirometry test ... system uses symptoms and exacerbations to grade the severity ...
Too Old to Operate25d
Age-Adjusted Criteria Improve COPD Risk Classification Among Older Patients Who Smoke
This study compared two spirometry thresholds ... outcomes such as mortality, exacerbations, and imaging abnormalities. Moreover, the use of the GOLD threshold has been criticized for oversimplifying ...
pulmonologyadvisor26d
COPD: Low Exercise Tolerance in Moderate Disease Predicts Worse Outcomes
The current analysis included 338 patients from the ECOPD cohort who had completed cardiopulmonary exercise testing, spirometry ... all patients were stable with no hospitalization or acute COPD ...