Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a multicenter, longitudinal cohort study, Regan and colleagues evaluated 10,198 current/former smokers with a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . This study included adults in Nepal, Peru and Uganda. Discriminative performance improved after adding ...

The ability of physicians to differentiate between asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the primary care setting may be improved with the addition of spirometry testing, ...

Spirometry could aid physicians in identifying patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that are at high risk of cardiovascular disease, a study finds. Compared with individuals with ...

A UK study of patients participating in low-dose CT lung cancer screening highlights the importance of spirometry (breathing tests) in the assessment of possible chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...

The guideline-recommended FEV1:FVC value of less than 0.70 is the optimal cutoff for the diagnosis of clinically significant chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), researchers say. The study, ...

Recent studies show that many patients are being treated for COPD without confirmatory spirometry. In-office testing is easy and available. A recent study showed that only 32% of patients admitted to ...

Credit: Getty Images. The 2024 GOLD COPD Report includes updated research and recommendations that reflect shifts in thinking on COPD management. Vogelmeier, who heads the Department of Medicine, ...

Considering a risk score generated from multiple genetic variants linked to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) caught undiagnosed cases of the disease better than conventional risk factors ...

Chronic lower respiratory diseases, namely, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), are the fifth-leading cause of death in the United States. A contributing factor is diagnostic ...