COPD symptoms vary depending on the amount of lung damage that has occurred due to inhaled substances, most commonly smoking. Symptoms are usually slow to develop and often don’t appear until there’s ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a lung condition that often hides in plain sight. You may think you’re dealing with a common cold, when in reality, your lungs are swollen, irritated ...

Misunderstanding COPD and asthma can be risky. Recognising the difference in the condition, treatment options, and the need ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is frequently associated with cardiovascular, metabolic, and psychological diseases, all of which can negatively impact quality of life, exacerbations, and ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a group of diseases that affect the lungs. The disease makes it difficult to breath and progressively gets worse. About 15 million Americans have been ...

(Reuters Health) - Many current and former smokers who don’t fit the definition of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may still have breathing problems seen in patients diagnosed with the ...

Debilitating symptoms from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can worsen in patients who also experience depression, research suggests. Patients who had pre-existing depression or developed ...

A discrete choice experiment found that patients with moderate-to-severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) valued improvement in their daily symptoms more than improvement of exacerbations.

"In patients with risk factors for COPD and respiratory symptoms, referring for spirometry is important to triage who will and won’t benefit from bronchodilators." – Meilan Han, MD, Professor of ...

Improving the health of the gut microbiome by way of fecal transplant (in mice) and dietary modification (in humans), has been shown by researchers to noticeably improve COPD symptoms. The finding ...