All of them can make you feel breathless. Doctors use stages to describe how severe your COPD is. This system is called the GOLD staging or grading system. Your grade will affect what treatment you ...

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 preventable and treatable condition marked by breathlessness, chronic ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is associated with shorter survival and marked differences in early stages of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Assessing the impact of pre-existing ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CT measurements may support patient satisfaction along the continuum of COPD phenotypes, and imaging phenotypes ...

Finding out that you or a loved one has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can feel overwhelming. But the good news is that simple strategies for COPD self-care, along with following your ...

Polyneuropathy (PNP) remains a common comorbidity among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and better screening strategies are needed to identify the condition and improve ...