The adjusted risk for COPD was elevated among adults who identified as regular cigarette smokers before age 15 years, ...

Childhood smoking before age 15 increases a person’s risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), ...

Matthew Moll, MD, MPH, and Michael H. Cho, MD, MPH, from the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital are ...

Vitamin D deficiency is strongly associated with an increased risk of severe acute exacerbations in patients with chronic ...

The following is a summary of “Feasibility, Usability, and Pilot Efficacy Study of a Software-Enabled, Virtual Pulmonary ...

We've all felt winded when taking the stairs or dealt with a cough from time to time. But if these issues linger, they could ...

“Patients with mild-to-moderate COPD who have low exercise tolerance are likely to experience poor respiratory health outcomes,” the investigators concluded. “Exercise tolerance may be considered one ...

To diagnose chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), doctors typically use spirometry to measure your lung function. They usually also perform other tests to monitor the damage to your lungs.

The following is a summary of “Assessing the Clinical and Functional Status of COPD Patients Using Speech Analysis During and After Exacerbation,” published in the January 2025 issue of Pulmonology by ...

Transylvania Public Health has started its three-year cycle of tackling the county’s top health concerns and devising a plan to effectively address them.

If a threshold of 10% risk of COPD was used to make spirometry referrals, the addition of the polygenic risk score correctly reclassified 13.8% of COPD cases in one of the cohorts ...

COPD is a progressive, irreversible inflammatory disease of the lungs that makes it difficult to breathe. Cigarette smoking is the most common cause of COPD. Common symptoms include a persistent cough ...