COPD

Overall rates of pulmonary rehabilitation rose in areas with greater program density, but rates for African Americans remained low despite greater program density.

Mental health disorders are highly prevalent in certain patients with COPD—and their effect can limit lung function therapy benefit.

Does it matter whether federal and state regulations allow for a significant user population?

High-risk LIVE scores for patients with COPD were associated with higher all-cause mortality and higher rates of referral to palliative care.

New Sunovion data at ATS 2019 shows expected trends of comorbidity effect on patients, and surprising results of care between men and women.

New clinical findings go against the advisory of the GOLD 2017 classification.

Most surveyed comorbid patients reported they required the help of family, friends or caregivers during pneumonia recovery, and needed an average of 28 days of care.

Despite decreasing tobacco use in the US, the prevalence of COPD has not dropped.

Economic factors can influence ER department patient disposition, despite prohibitions against such practice.

Certified respiratory educators helped a COPD intervention group of patients achieve improved symptom results.

A comparison of hospitalized COPD patients treated with either short-acting or long-acting bronchodilator showed the latter had no influence on 30-day readmission rates.

Duaklier Pressair is a is a fixed-dose combination of the long-acting muscarinic antagonist aclidinium and the long-acting beta agonist formoterol.

The LAMA/LABA combination therapy was shown to reduce one-year exacerbation rates while not increasing patient risk of cardiovascular events.

New research shows the public increasingly sees e-cigarettes as equally unhealthy compared to cigarettes—but that’s not the whole picture.

Little is known on the underlying pulmonary arterial lesions in patients with this phenotype of COPD.

The therapy was further assessed in asthmatic patients with comorbid chronic rhinosinusitis and with or without nasal polyposis.

Asthma risk and lung disease development can occur as easily and as frequently with smoking alternatives as it does with combustible cigarettes.

A new cohort from the Cleveland Clinic shows that the index could allow ICU clinicians to know whether a patient needs prone positioning or ECMO.

Flu vaccination reduced influenza-related hospitalizations by 38% among patients with COPD.

UAB investigators sought to learn if neutrophil elastase exists in an exosomal form, and whether these exosomes could potentially bypass alpha1-antitrypsin inhibition to contribute to COPD.

About 1 in 7 heart failure patients have COPD, which can lead to a 30% increase in risk of hospitalization and death.

Tobacco farm region physicians face the challenges of culture, law, and education in improving cessation.

About half of all patients with COPD suffer from serious adverse events following a hospital discharge, yet physicians cannot accurately distinguish which are at risk.

Some of the most common symptoms of COPD drive anxiety in its patients. An England-based study sought out a cost-effective response.

With no distinctive definition for what constitutes asthma-COPD overlap, clinicians are advising both diseases become diagnosed and treated differently.