Public health and healthcare professionals are encouraged to use this information and take actionable steps to prevent COPD, reduce health inequities, and ensure clinical guidelines are used to ...

COPD is classified into four stages: Early, Moderate, Severe, and Very Severe. Quitting smoking is the best way to prevent COPD from getting worse. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) affects more than 400 million people, continues to be the third cause of death worldwide, and has substantial regional variations in prevalence, risk ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) medications can help you breathe more easily and improve your quality of life. You take some types every day, but you use others for quick relief only when ...

Few situations are more unsettling than not being able to breathe. Whether from a momentary injury that knocks the wind out of you, swimming underwater for too long or recovering after sprinting at ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, is an ongoing group of lung conditions that include chronic bronchitis and emphysema. COPD is the result of damaged lung tissue, which leads to ...

The 2025 GOLD COPD report includes a new emphasis on CV disease and PH in COPD and major updates on spirometry, new COPD drugs, climate change, and more. The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive ...

If you’ve been diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, you probably have shortness of breath during physical exertion. Regular exercise may seem intimidating, but it’s actually ...

Did you know that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is actually the third leading cause of death worldwide? According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the lung disease – which ...

After more than a decade without any therapeutic advancements in chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), people with the progressive disease suddenly have two new options, with more likely on ...

This article supports the use of the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) treatment ratio as a surrogate marker of COPD exacerbation risk for quality measurement purposes. Objectives: Despite ...