What to know about asthma: Nearly 1 in 10 Americans have asthma.Here's what causes it. How is COPD treated? Regardless of what's causing the condition, COPD is treatable. "The mainstays of therapy ...

COPD is often confused as asthma. Since COPD is much more serious, it is important to learn how to tell the difference between the two conditions. Learn how.

Clinical practice guidelines embedded in electronic health records improve providers' evaluation and management of patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), according to ...

When spirometry is unavailable, physicians can use the St. George’s Respiratory Questionnaire score plus peak expiratory flow to screen for COPD, according to data published in American Journal ...

COPD lung sounds, like wheezing and crackling, can give clues about the state of your airways and help determine whether your treatment is working.

If you have (COPD), your doctor may prescribe inhaled corticosteroids as part of your treatment. Learn how to take them, how they can help, what the side effects might be.

Prior to diving into a discussion on best practices for managing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, stakeholders in health care remark on the prevalence and impact of the disease in the United ...

“Using the new COPD diagnostic schema, compared with individuals classified as not having COPD, those with a new diagnosis of COPD had greater all-cause and respiratory-specific mortality, more ...

In the Canadian CanCOLD cohort, 48 of 685 participants (7.0 %) without airflow obstruction were newly classified as having COPD under the minor-criteria path, while 105 of 656 participants (16.0 % ...